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The Daily Dispatch: October 5, 1864., [Electronic resource] 2 0 Browse Search
The Daily Dispatch: October 6, 1864., [Electronic resource] 2 0 Browse Search
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Police arrests. --The Mayor's police arrested yesterday afternoon three men, named Timothy Barrett, Patrick Madden and Hugh McGurdy, on the charge of stealing a mule, valued at one thousand dollars, the property of the Confederate States. When arrested, they protested their innocence; but the complaint against them was direct, and the officers had no other recourse than to lock them up till this morning, when the Mayor will investigate the matter. Davy Robinson was arrested and locked up in the lower station-house by officer Bibb on the charge of committing an assault upon Elizabeth Harris and striking her with a rock.
re committed to the poor house. Elizabeth, slave of John a farmer near Chaffin's Bluff, who was arrested by watchman E. H. Hicks on Tuesday night as a runaway, was committed till such time as her owner can be heard from. She informed the Mayor yesterday that when the Yankees commenced their fighting at Chaffin's, a few days since, the shells came so near where she was living that she became alarmed and ran off on account of it. The charge preferred against a free negro, named Davy Robinson, of throwing a rock at Elizabeth Harris, and being without a register, was continued till Friday. Becoming very much annoyed by the constant application of persons for the release of their servants who had been arrested on the streets during the morning by order of the Governor, the Mayor took occasion, before leaving his seat, to notify all such that he had no authority whatever to interfere in the matter, nor had he the inclination to do so, even supposing it was in his power. He