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The Daily Dispatch: February 21, 1862., [Electronic resource], European news. (search)
ontinued until this morning.--Francis H. Osgood and Geo. W. Nelson, alias Dick Johnson, two athletic looking white men, were arraigned for violently assaulting John Driggers, an Alabama soldier, on Thursday night, and taking from his person three letters entrusted to his care to be delivered at Manassas. Driggers, who was stoppingDriggers, who was stopping at the Ballard House, stepped into Bradford's restaurant, on Franklin street, where he met the prisoners and treated them several times. When he attempted to leave the house he was followed by them, and after getting a short distance was thrown down, garroted, beaten severely and robbed. He positively identified the prisoners as two of the party who made the assault. Nelson, alias Johnson, attempted to prove by Bradford's bar-keeper that he did not leave the house after Driggers did. He said that the latter was no doubt honest in his conviction that he was one of the men, but he was mistaken. At the request of Osgood, who wanted to prove that he was o