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anger,) drunk and lying on the sidewalk, admonished and discharged. Dick, slave to James Martin, having butter supposed to be stolen, whipped. Ned Day, drunk and lying in the street, whipped. Jim Butler, free, no papers, and from the Penitentiary, committed and put to work. William Avery, white, threatening to assault B. Tracy, required to give security. Sol. Green, no papers, discharged. Peter Doyle, insensibly drunk, for the ninth time, committed. A number of negroes, found playing cards in Metropolitan Hall lot on Sunday, were also punished for trying to elucidate the mysteries of "high, low, Jack and the game."--John Scott, found sleeping in a vacant lot, was admonished and let off. Wm. T. Ring was fined $5 for assaulting and beating a slave owned by Dunlop, Moncure & Co. Marshall, slave of B. Jones, was whipped for harboring Susan, the property of J. W. Clarke. The case of Charlotte Coleman, for assaulting and beating Ann Ellen, slave of Edward H. Hudson, was continued.
The Daily Dispatch: April 1, 1861., [Electronic resource], A Bostonian's view of affairs in Charleston. (search)
nger,) drunk and lying on the sidewalk, admonished and discharged. Dick, slave to James Martin, having butter supposed to be stolen, whipped. Ned Day, drunk and lying in the street, whipped. Jim Butler, free, no papers, and from the Penitentiary, committed and put to work. William Avery, white, threatening to assault B. Tracy, required to give security. Sol. Green, no papers, discharged. Peter Doyle, insensibly drunk, for the ninth time, committed. A number of negroes, found playing cards in Metropolitan Hall lot on Sunday, were also punished for trying to elucidate the mysteries of "high, low, Jack and the game. "--John Scott, found sleeping in a vacant lot, was admonished and let off. Wm. T. Ring was fined $5 for assaulting and beating a slave owned by Dunlop, Moncure & Co. Marshall, slave of B. Jones, was whipped for harboring Susan, the property of J. W. Clarke. The case of Charlotte Coleman, for assaulting and beating Ann Ellen, slave of Edward H. Hudson, was continued.
Unwilling witness caught. --Detective officer J. Washingon and week, after a long search, in apprehending a female called Charlotte Coleman, a cyprian, and late a resident of this city, who was not long since bound ofter to appear as a witness against certain parties charged with counterfeiting Confederate Treasury notes, and who, on the day not apart for the trial, turned up missing. The agent of the Government, deeming that the witness had been tampered with, set his wife to work to trace out her stopping place, and, after a long search, lit upon her in. Memphis. Combined with the address and skill necessary in so important an operation, there was a degree of assiduity displayed by officer Goodrick that may well merit commendation. The trial of the party against whom Charlotte Gilman was a principal witness, was postponed until the 8th a April,in the rather vain hope, as it seemed at the time, of securing her attendance.--Owing, however, to human ingenuity and perseverance,