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 Mitchell was withdrawn, it having been proven that she was orderly and respectable, and that she had no intercourse with the others.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 counterpanes, one
looking-glass and one pitcher, valued at two hundred dollars, the property of
Dr. Mason.
It appears that Peter formerly lived with
Dr. Mason's negro woman as her husband, but recently his protracted absence from the city caused her to take to herself another husband, and on Monday night last, during her absence, he broke into the kitchen and carried off the articles enumerated above, which he claimed as his property.
The
Mayor ordered him to be whipped.
Punishment by stripes was ordered to be administered upon Reuben, slave of
Mary Oliver, charged with stealing half a ream of writing paper belonging to the
Confederate States.
