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The Daily Dispatch: March 24, 1864., [Electronic resource], The death of Sir Wm. Brown. (search)
Sent to the penitentiary. --Robert E. Foster, of King William county, Va, indicted for robbing the Treasury Department (in which he was a clerk at the time) of $10,000, in September last, was yesterday tried in Judge Lyons's Court, and after examination of witnesses and argument by counsel the case was given to the jury, who in a few minutes rendered a verdict of guilty, assessing his term of confinement in the penitentiary at two years. Foster seemed much confused when the verdict was read, and on being asked by the Judge whether he had anything to say why sentence should not be pronounced, replied that he hoped he would be permitted to remain in jathereupon delivered him into the hands of the jailor, with instructions to convey him to the State's prison as early as convenient. In another case, charging Foster with the robbery of $1,000 from the Confederate States, the Attorney for the Commonwealth entered a nolle prosequi, the confession of the robbery having been obta