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The Daily Dispatch: March 29, 1864., [Electronic resource], The News yesterday. (search)
Fire and loss of life.
--Between eight and nine o'clock yesterday morning a fire occurred in the third story garret room of the house on 17th street, over Jos Hill's barber shop, by which two negro children, belonging to Mr. Samuel Forsyth, lost their lives.
Smoke was seen issuing from the top of the building when persons who were passing along the street ran up and found a cradle, to which was the oldest child, aged about four years, almost consumed.
A bed in another part of the room in which was the youngest child was on fire, and the flames were just communicating with the rafters over head.
The child in the cradle had been burnt to a coal, the one in the bed was also dead, having been smothered by the smoke.
Soon after the alarm was given the firemen arrived and very quickly extinguished the flames.
The fire is believed beyond doubt to have been accidental.
The mother of the children who were killed says that on getting up in the morning she lit a candle, and thinks tha
The Daily Dispatch: June 20, 1864., [Electronic resource], Police Arrests. (search)
Police Arrests.
--On Saturday and yesterday the following parties were arrested and locked up in the upper and lower cages: Elizs, slave of Samuel Forsyth, charged with stealing ninety dollars in Confederate money, the property of B. C. Brooks; Fuller, slave of David M. Lee, for stealing a piece of bacon from a huckster in the First Market; Frank, slave of W. W. Granger, aiding and abetting in the robbery of Terrence Roney.
Mayor's Court, yesterday.
--In the absence of the Mayor, Recorder James K. Caskie officiated.
The following is a summary of the cases brought up for adjudication:
Eliza, slave of Samuel Forsyth, was charged with stealing ninety dollars in Confederate money from B. C. Brooks.
The evidence being insufficient to convict the accused, she was discharged.
A small boy, named Charles Childress, arrested in the Second Market on Saturday morning for stealing onions from Dr. Wm. E. Anderson, was discharged upon the condition that his father would take him home and administer a severe whipping upon him.
John and Mary Scott, free negroes, were charged with stealing sixty dollars' worth of chickens from William Henry, also free.
The parties are next door neighbors, and the morning after the robbery blood was traced from Henry's hen-house into the yard of the accused, which excited the suspicion that they were the thieves.
Search was made, but none of the stolen fowls were fo