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The Daily Dispatch: April 19, 1864., [Electronic resource], Runaway. (search)
r. Marcellus Starke; and George, slave of Mr. John C. Hobsen, were before the Mayor yesterday morning, charged with stealing thirteen chickens from a negro named Shadrack. These negroes seem to have been a regularly organized band of chicken thieves, doing business on a large scale. They were caught by officers Griffin and Moore on Sunday together in a house on Marshall street, near St. James Church. In the house were found Shadrack's chickens in the act of being picked and dressed, a revolver and a long double-barrel pistol, both heavily loaded; a large assortment of burglar's tools, a grain bag of feathers, and a long military great coat much besmeared with blood. One of the crow bars fitted into the dints in the door of Shadrack's hen house, which had been broken open. In an out house in the yard was found about a bushel of chicken heads, feet and offal. The proprietor of this house, another negro, was lying in bed and pretended to be very ill. When the police took the neg