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The Daily Dispatch: March 30, 1864., [Electronic resource], The news. (search)
ed Saunders said he was a soldier from Camp Lee, and that he was stealing the locks to sell for bread. In Court, however, he tried to produce the idea that he had bought both the chisel and locks from Mr. Ryan, one of the witnesses against him. He was sent on to the Hustings Court, and, if convicted, will be likely to go to the penitentiary, as he has before been convicted of petty larceny, and the effect of two convictions for petty larceny being to amount to a felony. William and Elijah Pittman, free negroes, were ordered thirty lashes each for robbing an old negro named Martin Smith of fifty dollars. The rogues decoyed the old negro into a sequestered spot last Sunday, under pretence of having some flour to sell him, when William grabbed his money, which he had in his hand, and ran off, while Elijah held him and prevented him from making any outcry. After William had been arrested Elijah came to the old negro and returned him his fifty dollars, and tried to induce him not to