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The Daily Dispatch: March 31, 1864., [Electronic resource], Love Undiminished by Amputation. (search)
Horse thieves. --For a week past the city has been infested by a notorious gang of horse thieves, the individual members of which are all well known to the police. In this time they have stolen upwards of a dozen horses, all of them very valuable animals. On Monday night they broke into Mr. J. E. Pitts's stable, corner of Henry and Marshall streets, and stole two horses, valued at $2,500 each. Part of the gang are still in the city, whilst the others are believed to have gone either to Lynchburg or Petersburg with the stolen horses.
The Daily Dispatch: April 20, 1864., [Electronic resource], The capture of Fort Pillow. (search)
ad been examined before Gen. Winder, Major Griswold, and Major Carrington, and by each acquitted. Since then we have been informed that the only investigation had was before one of Major Griswold's assistants, with the following result: J. E. Pitts, the owner of the hack in which Brandt was carried to the Rappahannock, being called and sworn, the following question was propounded to him by the examining officer: Q. What do you know about the charge against R. B. Craddock, detective. The above being the only evidence adduced, Major Griswold endorsed on the paper the following: "Respectfully forwarded to headquarters. The only person whose name was furnished as a witness, and the only person said to be present, Mr. Pitts, gives the above testimony. In my opinion, it is altogether insufficient to take action upon. "(Signed) E. Griswold, "Major and P. M." Messrs. Ford and Craddock are to appear before the Mayor this morning for further examination,
The Daily Dispatch: April 22, 1864., [Electronic resource], Conscription in Mississippi. (search)
Horse Thieves. --The case of Wm. Leber and Charles Riddle charged with stealing two horses from Wm. S. Munson and J. E. Pitts, was examined before the Mayor yesterday, and the accused were discharged and sent to the Enrolling officer. The witnesses who had been relied upon to convict them were women of ill-fame, who pretended to know nothing about the matter. It is believed that they refused to testify through fear of personal violence from some of the horse stealing gang who are still at large.