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The Daily Dispatch: may 29, 1861., [Electronic resource], article 2 (search)
A child was run over by a wagon, on 17th street, yesterday evening, and very seriously injured. It was taken into the apothecary store of Mr. John W. Frayser, and properly cared for. Parents cannot be too careful in keeping their children from making a play-ground of the public streets, where the continued passage of heavy vehicles in charge of not over-careful drivers, renders very certain the chance of injury which might be avoided, and ought to be.
The Daily Dispatch: April 18, 1862., [Electronic resource], Outrages of the enemy. (search)
No. 14. At a general Court-Martial, assembled in Richmond, Va., pursuant to paragraph two, Special Orders No. 57, headquarters department of Henrico, issued April 2d, 1862 were arraigned and tried--1st, A. Bodeker; 2d, John T. Gray; 3d; John W. Frayser; 4th, R. W. Powers, upon the following charge: [charge.] Sale or disposition of spirituous liquors, or other intoxicating beverages. To which charge the prisoners severally pleaded not guilty, and the Court, having considered the evidence, find the accused, each and severally, of the charge not guilty, and do, therefore, pronounce that the said A. Bodeker, John T. Gray, John W. Frayser, and R. W. Powers, are fully and honorably acquitted. II. The proceedings in the foregoing cases are disapproved of by the Reviewing Officer, who considers that the evidence presented to the Court fully sustains the charge preferred. The prisoners are hereby ordered to be released from confinement, and they may congratulate them
The Daily Dispatch: May 24, 1862., [Electronic resource], article 1 (search)
he city, by three men, who first enticed him into a vacant lot and then knocked him down and denuded him of every cent he possessed. At a quarter to ten o'clock on Thursday night, Mr. Charles A. Brockmeye was accosted by three soldiers near John W. Frayser's store, on Seventeenth street, knocked down, choked, and robbed of a valuable hunting case gold watch and chain. One of the ruffians said, "Take him!" when another seized him around the neck, another around the leg, and the third completedussion made a hole in his head. The noise alarmed a German woman living near by, who came to her door and raised an alarm, when the rascals walked off. Brockmeyer being prostrated from the effects of the attack, was assisted into the store of Mr. Frayser, who, after restoring him to some degree of consciousness, conveyed him home. No watchman or other guardian of the night appeared on the scene of action during the enactment of the above proceeding. Mr. B. had over $200 in notes in his pocke
The Daily Dispatch: December 23, 1863., [Electronic resource], The enemy in the Valley. (search)
Stolen Goods. --Joe Gaines, a free negro, was before the Mayor yesterday morning, to answer the charge of stealing a buggy valued at $1,000, the property of John W. Frayser, and with having in his possession boots, shoes, etc., stolen from John Tyndall, knowing the same to have been stolen. Gaines is the keeper of a stable near 7th and Cary streets. Officer Perrin, on searching the premises, found the buggy, which had been taken to pieces and newly painted; a roll of carpeting, and several pairs of boots and shoes, which were taken from Tyndall's shop on the 13th inst., the shop having been broken open. There were also in the stable three mules and a horse, supposed to have been put there improperly. Gaines, on being arraigned, stated that the larger portion of the stable had been rented to a white man, who claimed the mules, horse, and buggy; that the carpet was in the loft when he rented the building, and that he had never seen the boots, shoes, etc. Desirous of giving
The Daily Dispatch: January 13, 1864., [Electronic resource], Ran away (search)
Sent to the Penitentiary. --A free negro named Joseph Gaines was arraigned before the Hustings Court of Magistrates yesterday, on the charge of stealing, on the 15th day of December last, one buggy, of the value of $1,000, from John W. Frayser; three mules, valued at $1,000 each, and one sorrel horse, worth $500, the property of the Confederate States of America, besides several other articles of greater or less value.--The evidence proved the guilt of the negro, and he was sent to the Penitentiary for the term of two years. The Court was very much in favor of selling him into slavery; but it being stated that he was a good blacksmith, they thought it best to put him where the State could receive some benefit from his services, and therefore he was sentenced as above mentioned.