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Browsing named entities in The Daily Dispatch: December 28, 1865., [Electronic resource]. You can also browse the collection for John Murphy or search for John Murphy in all documents.
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Night police Assaulted by negroes.
--On Sunday night, officers John Murphy, Baker Ward and Thomas Smith were called up by T. L. Page, colored man, who keeps a grocery on the corner of Upper-Union and Bute streets, to take a negro out of his stopper-Union street, the officer after him. The negro jumped a fence, but the officer kept on his trail.
Officers Ward and Murphy followed out Union street and cut through an alley to cut the man off from Hawk street. When the officers got into the alsturbance.
Officers Bonfanti and Merchant were at the scene of action, but the perpetrators of the assault upon Ward and Murphy had "took out." They will all be arrested and turned over to the Freedmen's Court for trial.
Ward and Murphy are doing wanti and Merchant were at the scene of action, but the perpetrators of the assault upon Ward and Murphy had "took out." They will all be arrested and turned over to the Freedmen's Court for trial.
Ward and Murphy are doing well.--Norfolk Day Book.