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The Daily Dispatch: July 8, 1862., [Electronic resource], The President 's address to the army. (search)
Police Court.
--Thomas Davenport, who had exercised his talents on Sunday as a fighting man, in the detriment of Mrs. Kearn's head, having cracked that useful member by a severe application of pine board, appeared, but the victim of his violence act being in a condition to confront her assailant be was put in jail until the 9th of July.--Tom, slave of Wm. Taliaferro, and James, slave of Elizabeth Manders, were brought up, the first for feloniously receiving $10 stolen from J. T. Hill, and the last for stealing $300 from the same individual.
The boys being in front of the Exchange Hotel, had proffered their services to hold two houses, one of them ridden by Mr. Hill.
When the latter emerged from the hotel be found the horses had vanished, and along with them his carpet sack, containing the $300. The evidence in regard to the complicity of Tom being rather meagre, he was discharged, while his companion, Jim, was held to await future developments.
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