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The Daily Dispatch: November 20, 1860., [Electronic resource], Notice to German Correspondents. (search)
Judge Lyons commenced the November term of his Court yesterday morning at 11 o'clock. During the morning a number of motions in relation to civil causes were heard and disposed of. The Grand Jury met at the appointed hour, and brought in true bills against Jno. Burns, for violently assaulting and beating a man named Kane, and breaking his ribs; and against Henry B. Hernandez, for breaking into a house occupied by one of Mr. J. S. B. Tinsley's servants, and stealing all her furniture and wearing apparel. When the robbery was committed the servant who occupied the house was absent from the city. Her owner, however, got wind of the robbery, and procuring a search warrant, not only found the missing articles in the house of the accused, but the officers discovered a saddle believed to have been stolen, and a revolver.
The Daily Dispatch: April 9, 1861., [Electronic resource], Mayor's Court. (search)
Mayor's Court. --Yesterday the following cases were heard: Theresa, slave of J. S. B. Tinsley, threatening to assault the wife and child of Thos. Isaac — case continued.-- Chas. Annee, arrested for being in an unlawful assembly — discharged.-- Nancy A. Mann, found in his company, being from Fredericksburg, and minus papers, was detained until to-day. Frederick Conrad, "no papers and gamboling," (as per record,) ordered twenty lashes.--Wm. C. Gay, old toper, found drunk in the 1st Market, sent to jail — David W. Hughes, and Richmond Hughes — the first for having fifteen counterfeit ten cent pieces in his possession, and the last for being in an unlawful assembly, gave bail to appear to-day.--The case of Robert, slave of Thos. Bradford, for keeping a bar-room for negroes for his master, will be heard to-day.--James Bagby, John Bagby, and Alex. Rennold, were required to give security to keep the peace, having broken that useful article by a game of fisticuffs in the 1st Market-Hou
The Daily Dispatch: December 3, 1860., [Electronic resource], article 3 (search)
Sudden death. --A negro woman named Betsy, slave to J. S. B. Tinsley, was taken suddenly ill on Saturday, and died yesterday morning. The impression prevails in the neighborhood that she was poisoned, and a postmortem will, therefore, be made this morning Betsy occupied the house on 17th street which was robbed by a man named Hernandez, it September last, and for which he has been sent to the penitentiary for two years. It may be that some of his confederates in crime have sought revenge by poisoning the woman, though there is yet no proof of that fact.
The Daily Dispatch: January 15, 1864., [Electronic resource], Shot for cowardice. (search)
was disposed of: A fine of $10 was imposed upon S. J. Howle for permitting his slave to go at large. Julius C. Walteman, charged with stealing two cows, valued at $700, the property of James M. Carter, was remanded for trial before Judge Lyons. Orris Harrison, arraigned on the charge of stealing one horse, of the value of $50, from Timothy Harris, was tried, found guilty, and sent on to Judge Lyons's Court. Lewis, slave of N. T. Pate, and Scott and Beverly, slaves of J. S. B. Tinsley, charged with stealing liquor from N. T. Pate, were found guilty, and each ordered thirty-nine lashes. John B. Henderson was tried, found guilty, and remanded before Judge Lyons's Court on the change of stealing overseers and shoes the Confederate States. William , charged with being concerned in the robbery of N. T. Pete's wine cellar, was found guilty and ordered thirty-nine inches. An old penitentiary convict, named Frederick Miller, who had already served out f
The Daily Dispatch: September 17, 1864., [Electronic resource], Later from New Orleans. (search)
ton oil, in order to grade services on the batteries. His case was field for further consideration. A youthful member of Captain Ward's militia company, named J. J. Lewis, was charged with stealing a pair of shoes from a soldier temporarily quartered at the "Soldiers' Home," on Seventh and Cary streets. The complainant not appearing, he was delivered up to his captain. Mary Harris, a free negro, was ordered to be whipped for stealing a silk dress and basquine, the property of J. S. B. Tinsley; Harry, slave of William Sheppard, but supposed to be a runaway, was treated in a similar manner for stealing a basket of corn from a market woman. George B. Wright, charged with buying a lot of peaches in the First Market to sell again, and Pleasant Gentry, charged with purchasing Irish potatoes in the same place for a similar purpose, during interdicted hours, were each fined twenty dollars and had their potatoes and peaches confiscated for the benefit of the city. Two females,
The Daily Dispatch: October 1, 1864., [Electronic resource], From the United States. (search)
Mayor's Court, Thursday. --James McGiffin, an old, gray-haired man, and his two sons, Stephen and Nicholas, were charted with stealing from their employer, Mr. N. Tinsley Pate, one canal boat, valued at $1,500, and a horse worth $750. The only witness examined was Mr. J. S. B. Tinsley, the manager of Mr. Pate's farm, at which the McGiffin were employed; and at the conclusion of his testimony the Mayor unhesitatingly dismissed the parties. Immediately thereafter, their counsel, Messrs. J. Leeds Carroll and Daniel Ratcliffe, demanded the warrant upon which their clients had been arrested, remarking that it would hereafter be seen whether felonious charges should be permitted to be made against respectable gentlemen with impunity. John, slave of Robert Lumpkin, and Mat, slave of George T. Ratcliffe, were charged with burglariously entering the dwelling-house of Mr. George Lee on the night of the 7th instant and stealing six thousand dollars' worth of wines, brandies, and other
The Daily Dispatch: November 16, 1864., [Electronic resource], article 3 (search)
eys on his table, was stooping down trying to fit them to his chamber door when he came in upon him. Bohannon, as soon as he was discovered, ran off. The Mayor remanded him for examination before the Hustings Court. N. Tinsley Pate and J. S. B. Tinsley, charged with taking a canal boat and one horse, by force and violence, in possession of James McGiffin, were each held to bail for their appearance to answer an indictment by the Grand Jury on Friday next. [The evidence given in the case seeded to drive a staple in its stern in order to attach a chain and lock it to the wharf. McGiffin was sitting on the deck, and tried to prevent the accomplishment of Pate's designs, when the two got into a scuffle, during the progress of which Tinsley succeeded in driving in the staple and locking the boat to the wharf. Subsequently Pate made his negro man scale the enclosure to the lot in which the horse was kept, open the front gate, and take him out. The key to the lot gate was in McGiffi