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The Daily Dispatch: December 11, 1863., [Electronic resource], article 10 (search)
Stealing clothes. --William Langford, a lad, arrested for stealing wearing apparel from Mr. Lyon's yard, appeared before the Mayor yesterday for examination. The evidence being very unsatisfactory, the party was turned over to his mother for parental punishment.
The Daily Dispatch: February 23, 1864., [Electronic resource], Ranaway (search)
ealing from Mrs. Sarah A. Walfinn one roll of butter, valued at $15, was taken up, and the testimony resulting in his conviction, he was ordered to be whipped. Joe, slave of Armistead Braxton, was ordered to be whipped for unlawfully entering the house of Washington, slave of John Fisher, on the night of the 20th inst. A fine of $10 was imposed upon J. V. Ramos, charged with a violation of law in renting to a slave, without permission from his owner, a room on his premises. Wm. Langford, Joe Childress, and Walter Beck, youths, the oldest of whom was not more than ten or eleven years of age, were charged with stealing from Dan Hunt a lot of window-glass. The testimony elicited in this case fully established the guilt of the accused; but the Mayor discharged them upon the ground of their extreme youth, recommending them to their parents for proper punishment for the offence which they had committed. His Honor remanded for examination before the Hustings Court a negro
The Daily Dispatch: January 21, 1865., [Electronic resource], Mayor's Court. (search)
eys, gained access to his trunk and abstracted the valuables therefrom. The Mayor remanded the prisoner for examination before the Hustings Court. The charge against George, slave of Thomas Y. Catlett, of feloniously receiving a trunk, containing gold, silver and copper coin, the property of some person unknown, was dismissed and the prisoner was discharged. A fine was imposed upon John H. Jamison for keeping his drinking-house open after 10 o'clock at night. The case of William Langford, charged with huckstering and regretting in the Second Market, was taken up, examined into and continued till this morning. In two cases against Peter Reynolds, a restaurant-keeper on Broad street, charged with violating the ordinance by keeping his house open after 10 o'clock at night, he was fined, collectively, fifty dollars. A. W. Hughes, fined before for violation of the market ordinance, was fined fifty dollars yesterday for buying nine pounds of butter in the First Mark
The Daily Dispatch: December 27, 1865., [Electronic resource], Breaking a water pipe. (search)
Breaking a water pipe. --William Langford, a resident of that interesting place known as the United States Hotel. was charged before the Mayor yesterday with cutting a water pipe. Several witnesses testified that he was a very bad boy, and was constantly making a fuss up stairs. He was discharged with an admonition.