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coat and grazing his side Mr. Hicks then knocked the prisoner down several times, but the latter finally managed to escape, leaving his coat, pistol, and hat in the hands of the watchman. Some papers in the coat led to his identification, and the police have been on the look out for him ever since. Yesterday morning, about one o'clock, officer Jenkins caught him secreted in the house of his wife, on Duval street. He was sent on to be tried before the Hustings Court. Peter, slave of Edward Smith, was charged with stealing a trunk valued at fifteen hundred dollars, fifty bunches of fish, and fourteen dozen eggs, from Wm. J. Jennings, of Charles City. It appeared that Monday night Mr. Jennings put his cart, containing the trunk, fish, eggs, and some other things, into Woodward's stable, on Franklin street, below 17th, and that during the night the stable was broken open and the trunk, fish, and eggs stolen. Early yesterday morning Peter was found selling some of the fish in the f