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The Daily Dispatch: December 8, 1863., [Electronic resource], Confederate women and the War. (search)
hairs stolen from N. B. Tapscott, knowing the same to have been stolen. Mr. Tapscott has an office near the old Columbian Hotel, and some few weeks since was called away from the city, leaving his office and effects in charge of his servant boy Sampson. On his return last week Mr. T. discovered that his rooms had been robbed of twelve chairs, and that his servant was missing. Getting the officers to work, they soon arrested the straying servant, when he confessed that he had stolen the chair and bar-room on Governor st, near Main. Mr. Tapscott then had Huculus's house searched, and found three of the stolen chairs. The police also found in this house several decanters and tumblers, and an assortment of whiskey, wine, and bounce. Sampson stated that he was to get $36 for his master's chairs, $6 of which he received in money, and $30 he ate and drank up. The prisoner proved that he purchased the chairs of another negro, whose named he did not know, and that he did not keep a bar-