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Browsing named entities in The Daily Dispatch: November 25, 1864., [Electronic resource]. You can also browse the collection for Mary Lyons or search for Mary Lyons in all documents.
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Acquitted.
--William J. Bohannon, charged with the murder, some time since, of a little boy named James J. Brooks, was tried on yesterday in Judge Lyons's court and acquitted by the jury on the ground of insanity, that unfortunate affliction having been proven to their entire satisfaction.
Sent to the penitentiary.
--In Judge Lyons's Court, on Wednesday, Thomas H. S. Boyd, of Maryland, was tried for forging the name of J. W. Ellerson to an order for house rent, amounting to thirteen hundred dollars, found guilty and sent to the penitentiary for one year.
The jury recommended him to executive clemency.
Mayor's Court.
--A few minutes of the Mayor's attention yesterday was occupied in the disposition of the following cases:
Three white females, named Virginia Wade, Mary Mitchell and Mary J. Myers, were charged with unlawfully destroying a part of a dwelling-house occupied by them, the property of Mary Lyons.
The parties have been living for some time in an old brick tenement on Main street, at the corner of Twentieth, and two of them — namely, Virginia Wade and Mary Myers — being of very bad character and too lazy to work, have supplied themselves with firewood by tearing down the banisters, ripping out window-frames, and otherwise mutilating the house.
The warrant against Mrs. Mitchell was withdrawn, it having been proven that she was orderly and respectable, and that she had no intercourse with the others.
Wade and Myers were committed to jail in default of security for their good behavior.
Peter, slave of James D. Coleman, was charged with stealing one clock, two