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The Daily Dispatch: December 14, 1865., [Electronic resource], article 8 (search)
Mayor's Court. --Only one case was tried before Mayor Saunders yesterday, namely, that of John T. West, a white man, charged with purchasing thirty-two law books which were stolen from the offices of Mr. James B. Pleasants and Mr. J. L. C. Danner, lawyers, of this city, he knowing them to have been stolen. Mr. Danner testified that, for two weeks previous to the arrest of the accused, he had missed books from his library, and at last the matter became so serious that he suspected his servant boy of the theft, and took steps to ferret it out. Learning that West had been in the habit of buying books from the servant, he obtained the assistance of two police officers and repaired to his (West's) place of business. Upon inquiring of him whether he had bought any law books, or had any on hand, he promptly replied in the negative; whereupon the policemen proceeded to search the premises, and in the cellar found about two barrels of law books, among which he identified nine or ten