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The Daily Dispatch: June 7, 1864., [Electronic resource] 2 0 Browse Search
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The Daily Dispatch: January 11, 1864., [Electronic resource], Fatal affair. (search)
Successful robbery --Robberies in this city have become so frequent of late that their announcement scarcely excites any surprise in the mind of the reader. Hardly a night passes by but some one or more are committed. On Saturday night last, between the hours of one and two o'clock, the store and eating house of Mrs. Margaret Kell, situated on Leigh street, near Brook Avenue, was forcibly entered and robbed of one box of tobacco, valued at $220, one whole and one-half keg of lard worth $450, two half boxes of candles of the value of $300, one jar of black pepper, and $230 in Confederate money. Officer Seal was yesterday put upon the track of some suspicious parties, but as yet has not succeeded in identifying them with the robbery.
The Daily Dispatch: June 7, 1864., [Electronic resource], Decline of Beecher Stowe (search)
ed hog from a cart at the Market for $3 per pound, carried it immediately to his stall, where it was cut up and placed upon his stall for sale at $6 per pound, a very moderate advance of one hundred per cent. Before disposing of it, however, Mr Tyler stepped up and took possession of it. Sledd, finding himself in a tight place, stated that he had not bought the hog, but only took it to sell on commission. Fifty dollars fine and confiscation of the meat was the decision in the case. Margaret Kell, charged with receiving twenty and buying five pounds of sugar from a negro man, knowing it to have been stolen, was fined $20. Robert B Smith, from whom the article was taken, stated that the morning after his store was robbed, sometime in February last, he was informed a negro fellow had sold to Mrs K. a lot of sugar. He waited upon her to learn the facts, but she denied having done so; subsequently, however, when confronted by the negro, she acknowledged it. Alexander, slave of