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Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 24. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), chapter 1.29 (search)
The Daily Dispatch: August 12, 1861., [Electronic resource], Col. Branton Duncan , of Kentucky . (search)
The Daily Dispatch: October 11, 1864., [Electronic resource], Government bags found. (search)
Government bags found.
--Detectives Charles and Fitchett succeeded in finding, yesterday, fifty-four Government bags in a house on the basin occupied by a Mrs. Conley.
She accounted for their being there by saying that she had bought them from a negro who had permission to sell them.
The matter will be investigated.
Sent on for robbery.
--The examination in the extensive robbery of John Werner, on Saturday night, already noticed in this paper, took place before the Mayor yesterday morning.
On Sunday afternoon, detectives Recce, Fitchett and Charles, and officer Granger, of the civil police, succeeded in recovering most of the stolen property, amounting to about forty thousand dollars in money, jewelry and clothing, as well as in arresting Henry Reese, Joseph Kyser, John Albert and William L. Carrell, 's wearing apparel, knowing it to have been stolen.
The following testimony, given by detective John Reece, covers the whole facts elicited about the affair:
Detective Reece stated that, on Sunday morning, myself and detectives Charles and Fitchett were informed by Mr. Werner, the keeper of a barber shop opposite the American Hotel, that his room, over W. C. Hebener's store, on Main street, opposite the Exchange Bank, had been broken open during his absence on Saturday night, between 5 and
The Daily Dispatch: January 16, 1865., [Electronic resource], Gardener for sale. (search)
Running persons through the lines.
--Detectives Jones and Fitchett arrested, on Saturday night, John Munn, of this city, upon the charge of running persons through the lines.
Munn had bargained to carry a white man through in a couple of hours, receiving in advance five hundred dollars for that purpose.
When arrested, he was about starting off with his man. He is an old offender, and is already under heavy bonds to answer a similar offence.