Charged with Garroting.
--On Wednesday night about 8 o'clock
Mr. Bryant Bass was waylaid by two men near the corner of Cary and 12th streets, and robbed of eight hundred dollars in gold and
silver coin.
Officer Davis early yesterday morning arrested
Samuel C. Ryan in a house of ill-fame in Solitude on the charge of being one of the parties who committed the robbery.
Ryan was before the
Mayor yesterday morning, but the witnesses not being in attendance the case was continued till to-day.
About two o'clock yesterday evening
officers Seal and
Chalkley succeeded in arresting a man named
Charles Johnson, who is charged with being the other party concerned in the robbery of
Mr. Bass.
Johnson is a member of the Public Guard.