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The Daily Dispatch: January 15, 1864., [Electronic resource], From Norfolk and Portsmouth. (search)
Receiving a stolen blanket. --Beliah McCurthy, a girl of bad repute, apparently about twenty years old, charged with receiving one blanket, the property of Dr. Fisher, knowing it to have been stolen, was arraigned to answer to the allegation yesterday morning Mrs. Read, a white woman, testified that she and Beliah lived in the same house, that a man named Collier had given the accused a blanket, and at the same time a trunk which had been stolen from Dr. Fisher, had been opened by them, anDr. Fisher, had been opened by them, and sundry paper found therein were burnt up. Miss McCurthy denied the charge in so far as Collier was concerned in the affair. The Mayor sent her on for examination before the Hustings Court, on the second Monday in February. [Immediately upon the Mayor's announcement quite a good looking, well dressed lady stepped forward and, bursting into fears, desired to know whether bail would be accepted for her sister's appearance. Beliah, seeing her sister, who was leading the life of virtue and moral