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The Daily Dispatch: March 14, 1864., [Electronic resource], Arrests. (search)
Robert Lee, white, charged with being drunk and beating Henry, slave of Frederick Riley, was arrested yesterday morning. A white man, named Frederick Miller, was arrested yesterday, charged with robbing Thomas Patterson, on Monday night last, of a gold watch, a pair of boots, a hat, and $150 in money. Patterson was in a beastly state of intoxication, which caused him to keel over by the side of a house near Mayo's Bridge and fall asleep, where he was found by Miller, who divested his person of the articles above enumerated. His arrest was caused by the watch belonging to Patterson being found in the possession of William Brown, who alleges that he bought it from Miller for $900. A batch of negroes, some fifteen in number, were found yesterday morning engaged in playing cards in a kitchen attached to Haxall & Co.'s mills. A lost negro boy, not much larger than a good-sized doll baby, was picked up in the streets yesterday, and locked up in the lower station-house.
The Daily Dispatch: March 14, 1864., [Electronic resource], Mayor's Court. (search)
Mayor last Saturday, and disposed of: Two soldiers, members of the City Battalion, named Tobias Eacho and Jas. Glenn, charged with using abusive and threatening language towards Benedict Howard, and wantonly breaking open his door and entering his house against his consent, were required to give security for their appearance to answer an indictment by the grand jury of the Hustings Court. Richard Barry and Charles Isaacs, arrested some time since on the charge of garroting Mr. P. Augustus Haxall, and robbing him of $35 in money, a due bill for $1,100 upon Wm. G. Dandridge, a horse and buggy, a pair of saddle bags, and one raw hide, were called and a partial hearing of the case had; but in order to procure the attendance of other witnesses the matter was adjourned over till this morning, and the accused parties were remanded to jail. John Burgess, a youth, charged with assaulting and cutting Mrs. Minerva A. Tucker, was called to the stand, and after a partial examination
The Daily Dispatch: March 24, 1864., [Electronic resource], How Lincoln is running the machine in Arkansas. (search)
one vest pattern, four rolls of silk ribbon, and two neck ties. The witnesses falling to answer, the matter was postponed till a future day. Charles Pendergrass alias Green, a penitentiary convict, charged with garroting and robbing P. Augustus Haxall, of a horse and buggy, some money, one hide, &c, was remanded for indictment by the Grand Jury of the Hustings Court. From scars and cuts on the neck and hand of the prisoner, one of the witnesses was enabled fully to identify him as the pd fully to identify him as the party who offered the hide for sale which was stolen from Mr. Haxall. Fines were imposed upon E. M. Grant, grocer near the Second Market, for running a wagon on the street without first obtaining a license from the city; and Lorenzo Lewis, charged with permitting servants in his employ to go at large, in violation of law. Rachel, slave of H. C. Dawson, was ordered to be whipped for using insolent language toward and assaulting Thomas and Harriet French.
The Daily Dispatch: June 27, 1864., [Electronic resource], Hustings Court. (search)
Hustings Court. --Judge William H. Lyons presiding, A. Judson Crane, acting prosecutor. Only two parties were tried. Charles Pendergrast and Richard Barry, indicted for garroting and robbing P. Augustus Haxall. Pendergrast was found guilty by the jury, who assessed his punishment at four years in the penitentiary, to which the Judge added five years more, in consequence of his having formerly served out a term of imprisonment for grand larceny. Barry was then put upon trial, and acquitted. The Court will be in session again this morning.