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Mayor's Court.

--This Court met at nine o'clock yesterday morning, when the following cases were taken up and disposed of:

Richard L. Saunders was examined and sent on to the Hustings Court for stealing locks from the vaults and enclosures in Hollywood Cemetery. It appeared that Mr. James Ryan, while passing through the cemetery about ten o'clock Sunday morning, saw Saunders breaking off the locks from the private enclosures with a long screw driver, and slipping them into his pockets. After watching him for awhile, and seeing him break off a lock from the railing around Mr. Wellington Goddin's lot Mr. Ryan went off and informed Mr. O'Keeffe, keeper of the cemetery, of the facts, when Mr. O'Keeffe arrested Saunders, and found in his pockets seven locks and the screw-driver with which he had been operating. When arrested Saunders said he was a soldier from Camp Lee, and that he was stealing the locks to sell for bread. In Court, however, he tried to produce the idea that he had bought both the chisel and locks from Mr. Ryan, one of the witnesses against him. He was sent on to the Hustings Court, and, if convicted, will be likely to go to the penitentiary, as he has before been convicted of petty larceny, and the effect of two convictions for petty larceny being to amount to a felony.

William and Elijah Pittman, free negroes, were ordered thirty lashes each for robbing an old negro named Martin Smith of fifty dollars. The rogues decoyed the old negro into a sequestered spot last Sunday, under pretence of having some flour to sell him, when William grabbed his money, which he had in his hand, and ran off, while Elijah held him and prevented him from making any outcry. After William had been arrested Elijah came to the old negro and returned him his fifty dollars, and tried to induce him not to prosecute the ease.

Edward, slave of Mr. Wm. Winston Jones, was charged with attempting to break into the tailoring establishment of Mr. Gustavus R. Howard, and with shooting at watchman Marcellus Hicks, with intent to kill him.--The negro had several severe wounds on the top of his head, inflicted by Mr. Hicks's club on the night of the attempted burglary.--The circumstances of the case, as they came out in the evidence, may be briefly summed up. On Sunday night a week ago, about two o'clock, some watchmen discovered five negroes in the act of breaking in the rear door of Mr. Howard's store. The negroes fled, and were pursued by the watchmen, and two of them captured. Watchman Hicks pursued Edward, who, getting to a secluded part of Council Chamber Hill, turned on the watchman and fired his pistol at him, the ball passing through his coat and grazing his side Mr. Hicks then knocked the prisoner down several times, but the latter finally managed to escape, leaving his coat, pistol, and hat in the hands of the watchman. Some papers in the coat led to his identification, and the police have been on the look out for him ever since. Yesterday morning, about one o'clock, officer Jenkins caught him secreted in the house of his wife, on Duval street. He was sent on to be tried before the Hustings Court.

Peter, slave of Edward Smith, was charged with stealing a trunk valued at fifteen hundred dollars, fifty bunches of fish, and fourteen dozen eggs, from Wm. J. Jennings, of Charles City. It appeared that Monday night Mr. Jennings put his cart, containing the trunk, fish, eggs, and some other things, into Woodward's stable, on Franklin street, below 17th, and that during the night the stable was broken open and the trunk, fish, and eggs stolen. Early yesterday morning Peter was found selling some of the fish in the first fish market. He was arrested, and in a cellar on the corner of Main and 19th streets, where it was ascertained he had staid the night before, the trunk and some bunches of the stolen fish were found. The trunk had been broken open and its contents carried off. The Mayor ordered the negro 39 lashes.

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