The Daily Dispatch: September 17, 1861., [Electronic resource], <a target="_blank" onclick="openPopupWindow(this); return false" href="entityvote?doc=Perseus:text:1999.01.0001&auth=lyons&n=1&type=person">Judge Lyons</a>'s Court.

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Judge Lyons's Court.

--The regular session of this Court commenced yesterday at 10 o'clock.

The attachment case of C. H. Langley vs. E. W. Usher was dismissed.

Mrs. Susan E. Wilkinson qualified as administratrix of her deccased husband, Southy S. Wilkinson, who lost his life on the 18th of July, in the battle of Bull Run. The following gentlemen qualified as administrators: Henry Linkhauser, of Catharine Beck, deceased; John Thompson, of H. W. Quarles, deceased; W. E. Burton, of R. M. Burton, deceased; T. J. Evans, of C. B. Hill, deceased.

A grand jury — to wit, John Powell, foreman; John Freeland, Alfred T. Harris, Geo. D. Shell, S. P. Mitchell, Thomas Boudar, T. R. Price, Fleming Griffin, James Kersey, W. F. Butler, G. B. Watson, Mark Downey, T. M. Jones, C. F. Wortham, C. H. Powell, A. H. Rutherford, F. B. Hart, Peyton Johnston, William Palmer, Frederick Robertson, Corbin Warwick and W. H. Haxall — having been duly sworn, retired to their room, and after wards brought in indictments against the following persons for the offences named: Charles Murphy, for the murder of Albert, a slave of Mrs. Spindle; Benjamin Read, for stabbing, with intent to kill, William J. Summerville; Philip Calligan, for stabbing James Ford; Fountain Rowe, for stealing $32 from Auton Silvers. The grand jury was then discharged.

The Court adjourned to meet this morning.

The Daily Dispatch: September 17, 1861. Richmond Dispatch. 4 pages. by Cowardin & Hammersley. Richmond. September 17, 1861. microfilm. Ann Arbor, Mi : Proquest. 1 microfilm reel ; 35 mm.

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Judge Lyons's Court.