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The Daily Dispatch: July 22, 1864., [Electronic resource], Mayor's Court. (search)
, it was very certain the law did not justify a man in inflicting punishment upon negroes who were the property of other persons. Whenever any of them were impertinent to Mr. G. the Mayor promised, if the case was laid before him, to have them severely punished. Jane, slave of Willey A. Smith, charged with stealing one sheet from the Confederate States, and one sheet and a act of knives and forks from some person unknown, was ordered to be whipped. Similar treatment was inflicted upon Dick, slave of J. R. Anderson & Co. charged with stealing a lot of brass castings from the Central Railroad Depot. Charges were preferred against Watson, slave of Miles George, of entering the dwelling-house of Dr. O. F. Munson and stealing four hundred pounds of bacon; and Betty, slave of some person unknown, of stealing a breastpin, valued at $3,000, the property of Mrs. John H. Johnson; but owing to the absence of important witnesses the cases were put off for future consideration. Th