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The Daily Dispatch: June 27, 1864., [Electronic resource], article 1 (search)
money, one check for $95, one for $7 or $8, and divers other papers, from the coat pocket of John J. Palmer, and also charged with entering, by means of false keys, the money safe of A. M. Balley & Co it was therefore determined upon to set a trap to catch the thief. On Saturday afternoon Mr. John J. Palmer, the paying clerk, after settling with the employees of the establishment, wrapped up the A few minutes afterwards, and while S. was still in the counting room, Mr. Balley called Mr. Palmer outside, ostensibly for the purpose of fixing a lock on the door, but in reality with the intecessary, however, to wait for this opportunity, for hardly had Samanni got out of sight before Mr. Palmer had an occasion to use the money he had put in his pocket a few minutes before, when, to his gined for his arrest. When taken into custody he denied taking the packages from the pocket of Mr. Palmer, but subsequently, during an interview between himself and Mr. Bailey, at the cage, he confess
The Daily Dispatch: July 13, 1864., [Electronic resource], Hustings Court, Recorder Caskie Presiding. (search)
Hustings Court, Recorder Caskie Presiding. --In this Court yesterday the following cases were disposed of: Antonio Samuel, charged with stealing a lot of papers and money from John J. Palmer's coat pocket, and eleven thousand dollars from an iron safe belonging to Smith, Baily & Co, proprietors of the Sentinel newspaper, was examined and sent on in both cases for trial before Judge Lyons. Two negroes, named Dick, slave R. T. Alvey, and Daniel, slave of A. E. Etlett, charged with robbing Hammond Gearding of a valuable lot of brandy, groceries and money, were discharged. Bent slave of John H. Gentry, charged with burglariously entering the house of Mrs. L. V. Meyer and stealing therefrom several thousand dollars in money, jewelry, and wearing apparel, was acquitted of the charge of burglary, but ordered to receive thirty-nine lashes for intruding upon Mrs. M.'s premises, after repeated warnings to keep away. Four of the Magistrates were in favor of convicting Ben of
The Daily Dispatch: September 26, 1864., [Electronic resource], article 2 (search)
in that institution, five years additional confinement were added against him. Another charge, that of horse-stealing, is still pending to his account; but it is probable that a nolle prosequi will be entered by the prosecutor, in consideration of the long time the accused is condemned to confinement. The balance of the day's proceedings was consumed in disposing of the charges against Antonio Samanni, indicted for entering, by means of false keys, the iron safe of A. M. Baily & Co. and stealing sixteen thousand dollars in Confederate money, and stealing from the cast-pocket of John J. Palmer a package containing sundry papers and several hundred dollars in money. The jury in the first case brought in a verdict of guilty, and ascertained his term of imprisonment in the penitentiary at three years and six months. Upon the second charge he was acquitted. The court then adjourned till ten o'clock Monday morning. The grand jury will meet again to-day, according to adjournment.