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The Daily Dispatch: February 2, 1861., [Electronic resource], The late William Byrd page. (search)
ery feeble, never recovered from the injuries he received on that occasion. As near as we can ascertain, he had been connected with the police about forty years. In the war of 1812, he enlisted in Capt. Booker's company, and went with his fellow volunteers to the Canadian frontier. There is not, probably, since his death, a surviving member of that gallant company in Richmond, although Capt. Booker still lives in the county of Powhatan. Mr. Page was an officer of the night watch under Captain Prentiss, but subsequently withdrew from the service for a short period. He was in the day police during the whole time that Capt. Jinkins was at the head of the watch, and of late years, being too feeble for arduous duty, has been retained as an officer at the first station-house, in consideration of his long and faithful services.--Many incidents are related of his courage. On one occasion he went alone and arrested a large and powerful man, and was taking him to the watch-house, when the la