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The Daily Dispatch: June 18, 1864., [Electronic resource], Mayor's Court. (search)
, but stated in extenuation of her conduct that the negro fellow whom she stabbed had dogged her about the streets and made insulting propositions to her. The verdict of the Mayor seemed greatly to disturb her equanimity, and she retired to the prisoners' enclosure gritting and gnashing her teeth and threatening dire vengeance upon His Honor, the police, and all others who might come in her way. Jerry Donnovant and Lee Whitehurst, charged with stealing a diamond breastpin from Lieut Col. James Nelligan, were committed to jail to await the arrival in Richmond of important witnesses. This case has been continued for several days, and the Mayor determined he would not again set any particular time to take it up, but would grant a reasonable time for the parties interested to collect their testimony. To an inquiry from Mrs. Donnovant whether her son would be allowed bail, His Honor peremptorily objected, remarking at the same time that he was one of the worst scamps that now infest