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The Daily Dispatch: December 31, 1864., [Electronic resource], article 1 (search)
the Confederate States Navy, was charged with stealing a gold watch from Charles E. Powell. While under the influence of liquor, the accused (Powell) and another mPowell) and another man, named James A. Cain, visited a restaurant near the Second Market on Thursday afternoon to get something to eat. Sitting around the stove, waiting for then dinner, Powell went to sleep, when Britton remarked to Cain that he would show him how easy it would be to steal a watch; and, suiting the action to the word, reached over and took Powell's watch from his pocket. Soon after taking it out, he pretended to put the watch back, but did not do so. --He then started for the street, and was foe, pursued by Cain, he ran back into the restaurant and put the watch back into Powell's pocket, remarking as he did so that he was "only fooling" and had no intention of stealing it. Powell stated that he was acquainted with the accused; had been drinking with him pretty freely, and had no suspicions of his intention to rob him.