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The Daily Dispatch: December 28, 1861., [Electronic resource], Negro Hiring for 1862. (search)
rner of Broad and Mayo streets, which resulted in the stabbing of the former, whose injuries terminated fatally next morning. The murderer fled, and has not yet been arrested. The fact was made known to acting Coroner Sauxay, who held an inquest on Christmas day, and the jury returned a verdict that Robert's death was caused by a stab in the left side, inflicted by Sidney Robinson. On Tuesday night, two free colored boys, named Beverly Randolph and John Henry Ashby, apprentices to Robert Francis, barber, got into a playful controversy about a knife, which the former had in the shop, where they were employed, on Main street, below 17th. Beverly first rapped John on the head with the knife, but this had no effect, and finally he thrust it into his left side, whether intentionally or by accident, must be determined hereafter. The boys were good friends, and had no previous misunderstanding. John died the next morning, and Beverly has since been taken into custody. An inquest wa