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The Daily Dispatch: April 17, 1861., [Electronic resource], article 26 (search)
Supreme Court of Appeals, April 16th, Judge Allen presiding, and present a full bench. Medley us. Oliver — Appeal allowed from the Circuit Court of Halifax county. Layne es Morris Administrator — Argued by James Garland for plaintiff, and Macfarland & Roberts for the defendant. Judgment of the Gireouit Court of Amherst county reversed. Henry vs. Graves — Argued by Wood Houtdin and Geo. W. Read for the appellate, and Howard & Sands for the appealers. Decrees of the Circuit Court of Halifax affir
The Daily Dispatch: April 17, 1861., [Electronic resource], The Custom-house Robbers. (search)
picion entertained against them here was not worked out to any definite result by our police.-- Pullen, who had repaired to Washington, however, from a previous knowledge of his character, was there arrested on suspicion by two detectives, called Allen and Baes, who seeing a good thing might be made if they could establish the fact, liberally plied Pullen with promises of immunity, &c., which so operated on the astute burglar that he incontinently owned up. The arrest of Sommerville followed. After the discovery at Washington, and the prisoner there arrested having told where the money was, its restoration was an easy matter. The fact of having been taken in and done for by the beaks, as Pullen called Allen and Bass, so affected him that at the first opportunity he confessed himself guilty, and desired to be sent immediately to prison.-- He was accommodated by Judge Meredith to the extent of 8 years. Shortly after his entry into prison he succumbed to the influence of grief and mor
The Daily Dispatch: April 17, 1861., [Electronic resource], The Civil War. (search)
$25 reward. --Runaway, on the 29th of March, a woman named Nancy, whom I purchased of H. Stern, of this city. She is of medium size, rather spare made, of a ginger- bread color, has a diffident look when spoken to, is twenty-three years old, has a blister scar on her neck. She was sold last Christmas at the sale of Wm. Andrews, decd, nine miles above the city. She may now be in that neighborhood, or near Slash Cottage, as she has a mother living at Mr. Wm. Winn's, near that place, in Hanover county. She was hired to Mr. Samuel Allen, of this city, last year, and has a husband hired to Mr. Ballark, at the Exchange Hotel, by the name of Delphins. I will pay the above reward if delivered to me in Richmond. ap 16-- R. S. Woodward.