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The Daily Dispatch: December 25, 1865., [Electronic resource] 2 0 Browse Search
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The Daily Dispatch: December 25, 1865., [Electronic resource], Arrests. (search)
e from B. A. Cocke. [In this case the accused was admitted to bail by Justice Binford. He alleges that he can prove he bought the horse, and was not within twenty miles of Richmond on the day the robbery is charged to have been committed.] William Lightfoot, alias William Burch, charged with felony and resisting and attempting to kill an officer in the discharge of his duty; Samuel Pleasants, a negro, for stealing a lot of groceries from Marshall F. Burton; Isaiah White, a negro, for fighting in the house of Mary Brown and cutting about him with a knife; and George N. Brown for fighting in the same place; Robert Randolph, a negro, for having been drunk and disorderly and resisting a policeman; and John Wyley, a Washington City negro, for stealing six chairs, valued at fifteen dollars, from R. P. Emerson. Fanny Taylor, pauper, for being drunk and creating a disturbance in the poor-house. Some few arrests for trivial offences were registered at the police stations last evening.
The Daily Dispatch: December 29, 1865., [Electronic resource], Petit larceny. (search)
Petit larceny. --John Wyley, a negro, was arraigned before Judge McEntee yesterday on the charge of stealing six chairs, valued at fifteen dollars, from the Monumental Hotel. On being arraigned, he plead not guilty. The following testimony was heard in the case: R. P. Emerson testified that he recognized the prisoner as a man whom he saw in the hotel, of which witness was proprietor, last Saturday night about half-past 7 o'clock. He was in a room which had been fitted up for a billiard saloon. He immediately pursued him, and stumbled over the chairs which had been taken from the room. He was finally pursued and arrested. Mr. Emerson had lost six chairs from this room about a week previously. The prisoner was found guilty of petty larceny and sentenced to six months imprisonment in Castle Thunder.