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The Daily Dispatch: November 20, 1861., [Electronic resource], From Norfolk. (search)
is also reported that the papers of the Ministers were not taken, and that the ladies connected with the party were allowed to proceed on the voyage. On Saturday night a prompt and successful descent was made upon a gambling establishment on Main, near Church street, by the police officers. The surprise was terrible among the money- making proprietors and their numerous patrons. The affair was well arranged by the officers, who deserve great credit for discretion and vigilance. Washington Worsham and Charles Reed were hurried off from their comfortable nocturnal quarters, and are now in jail awaiting an investigation, which will take place to-day, at 12 o'clock, before his Honor Mayor Lamb. --The roulette table, (which is of superior finish and very handsome,) faro bank, &c., were taken from the beautifully furnished apartments and are now in the Court room, in the City Hall. One of the men concerned in this noted gaming house has not been arrested. August Bourgnin was ind
The Daily Dispatch: December 2, 1861., [Electronic resource], From Norfolk. (search)
he poor with wood and other articles of necessity. A vast amount of suffering has been prevented, and great relief afforded to those most requiring it; and its operations will be more specially beneficial to the community this winter. Washington Worsham and Charles Reed, who were recently indicted by the Grand Jury of the Circuit Court for exhibiting a faro bank and roulette table in this city, were tried yesterday in the Circuit Court, and acquitted by the jury. Some short time since the police officers entered the premises of Messrs. Worsham & Reed by warrant from the Mayor, and found a roulette table, and apparatus for the game of faro, of which they look possession. The Commonwealth, however, could obtain at the trial no witness willing to testily that either game had been played. The failure of the Commonwealth to convict in this case, makes it evident that any law against gaming is of little avail, and admits of a doubt of the value of any law against it. I
The Daily Dispatch: June 19, 1862., [Electronic resource], Tragical. (search)
Tragical. --We find in a Northern paper a statement that Jim McCullough, who killed Washington Worsham in a duel near Richmond, was subsequently killed by Charley Read, a gambler, in New Orleans. It appears that Read met McCullough, and the latter refusing to recognize him as a gentleman on account of his connection with the duel, he drew a pistol and shot him. Read is in prison.