Stealing a horse.
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James H. Wilson,
alias James Toombs, arrested some time since on the charge of stealing a horse from the stable of
John B. Stephens, underwent an examination before the
Mayor yesterday, and was sent on to the Hustings Court for further trial.
The testimony of witnesses for the
Commonwealth proved conclusively the guilt of the accused, not withstanding the lame assertion of a man named
Henry Tillman, that he had beard, on Saturday night,
John Neidham say that
Toombs was innocent, and that he himself had stolen the horse.
According to
Tillman's testimony, Neidham had hardly disclosed to him his connection with the horse stealing before he jumped on the cars and left for
Lynchburg.
The
Mayor paid no regard to his evidence whatever.