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The Daily Dispatch: December 5, 1863., [Electronic resource], From the Rapidan. (search)
ly hour last Thursday night a daring robbery was perpetrated at the corner of 12th and Cary streets, for which two young men hulling from Alabama have been arrested and imprisoned.--The robbery was perpetrated at a house of ill fame kept by Miss Emma Cummings, and is said to have resulted in this wise: Two or three days ago a young woman, calling herself Miss Jennie Price, took lodging with Miss Cummings, and left two of her trunks, well titled with valuable apparel, in the hall. On Thursday niMiss Cummings, and left two of her trunks, well titled with valuable apparel, in the hall. On Thursday night William Gunels and John P. Gunels visited the house, and as parties were passing in and out during the evening the hall door stood open. Between the hours of 10 and 11 o'clock, after the Gunels had taken their departure, Miss Price discovered that one of her trunks, containing goods valued at $2,500, had disappeared, and dispatched a friend for the police. Capt. Pleasants receiving the message, repaired in person to the scene, and getting such information as he could procure, started in s