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The Daily Dispatch: April 18, 1862., [Electronic resource], article 3 (search)
Hustings Court, April 17th --Present: Recorder James K. Caskie, and a full bench. James M Taylor, heretofore commissioned as Notary Public by Gov, Letcher, appeared and gave bond for the faithful performance of his duties as such. A nolle prosequi was entered in the case of R. H. Barnes, indicted for an assault on a negro, on his paying the costs of Court. Richard Copeland was tried for exhibiting the game of faro in a house opposite the Spots-wood Hotel. His was one of the edifices so successfully stormed by the Mayor's indefatigable police, who succeeded in carrying off a lot of valuable but curious furniture, which they did not know the use of, (in a horn) The jury, acting on the evidence before them, which was remarkably flimsy as regards any faro-dealing by the defendant, returned a verdict of not guilty. Michael Sullivan, proprietor of Noah's Ark and other chattels, was put on trial for buying a lot of old iron, supposed to have been stolen from Joseph
The Daily Dispatch: April 18, 1862., [Electronic resource], article 11 (search)
Executive Clemency. --Governor Letcher pardoned on yesterday a man named James Ross, who was sent to the Penitentiary by the Circuit Court of Augusta county for three years, for maliciously placing obstructions on the track of the Virginia Central Railroad--The prisoner had served out two years of his time. His discharge was solicited by a large number of respectable gentlemen.