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The Daily Dispatch: February 24, 1864., [Electronic resource], 200 dollars reward. (search)
two paroled Yankees, (of course,) giving their names as Patrick Henry Castillo and John Howard, to garrote and rob Mr. Peter D. Bernard, a most worthy citizen of Henrico county, and formerly an enterprising conductor of the printing business in this city. Mr. Bernard had been in the city during the day and was on his way to the house of a friend, when, on reaching the corner of Cary and Virginia streets, he was decoyed into a vacant lot in the rear of Mr. Claiborne Burnett's blacksmith shop by. Marcellus Hicks and Cornelius Gardner, happening to be near at hand heard the alarm, and hastening to the spot found Mr. Bernard flat of his back, with the prisoners sitting on him, one of whom was rifling his pockets, while the other was holding ound about four hundred dollars in Confederate money and some valuable papers which they had succeeded in getting; but Mr. Bernard does not know whether this was all that they had taken from him, as he had on the morning of the robbery about eleven