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The Daily Dispatch: February 14, 1861., [Electronic resource], Virginia State Convention. (search)
trey was tried by a jury for an assault on Betty Allen, (a white female living in "Solitude," a disreputable row on Cary street,) found guilty, and fined $5 and costs of Court. The Court also ordered Kinstrey to be imprisoned for two months, or until said fine be paid. Charles H. Dimmock, Attorney at Law, was, on motion, allowed to practice in the Court. Joseph Parrish, a white man, and former resident of the State Prison, was tried by jury for a violent assault committed on Geo. W. Gillespie on a canal boat, and being found guilty, was fined $5. Besides the finding of the jury, the Court awarded him 60 days imprisonment in the common jail. Thos. J. Pitts was tried and convicted of an assault on George W. Murray, and fined $10 by a jury. The Court overruled a motion for a new trial, and he thereupon paid the fine. John Hughes, for a violent assault (nearly amounting to felony) committed on the person of Joseph M. Humphreys, was fined $150, and ordered to be impri
The Daily Dispatch: December 12, 1860., [Electronic resource], Army News (search)
Ingratitude. --On Wednesday afternoon last a boatman named Joseph Parrish, while in a state of intoxication, fell into the basin, and would have drowned but for the interposition of a young man named George W. Gillespie, who went to his aid and rescued him. As soon as Parrish found himself on terra firma, he seized a billet of wood and attempted to kill Gillespie for interfering with him, and probably would have succeeded in his fiendish purpose, but for the interposition of bystanders, w as Parrish found himself on terra firma, he seized a billet of wood and attempted to kill Gillespie for interfering with him, and probably would have succeeded in his fiendish purpose, but for the interposition of bystanders, who aided in his arrest. Parrish has served a term in the penitentiary, where he says he was sent under a mistake. The Mayor committed him in default of bail in $150 to answer an indictment by the next Grand Jury, and also required $150 security for his good behavior.