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The Daily Dispatch: December 15, 1863., [Electronic resource] 2 0 Browse Search
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The Daily Dispatch: December 15, 1863., [Electronic resource], article 1 (search)
they obtained money of him to trade on, and, as he believed, were buying and selling negroes.--During the examination nothing was elicited to show that he had any knowledge of the negroes; and but for the fact that Ellett had a bill of sale with his name on it, he could not have been held under the charge made against the other two. The Commonwealth established, by the evidence of several citizens of James City county, that the three negroes were born free, and that another negro, Washington Simpson, who was left at E. H. Stokes's jail on the 10th of July as the slave of Dr. Chas. M. Herbert, by Cotton and an unknown man, was also free. The witnesses also proved that there was no such man in James City as John Holt; that in Charles City there was a Justice of the Peace named John Holt; but that the bill of sale presented was not in his hand-writing. The Mayor, in order to secure the attendance of other witnesses, adjourned the investigation for one week, and admitted Dr.
The Daily Dispatch: January 14, 1864., [Electronic resource], A Yankee account of the treatment of Confederate prisoners. (search)
. --The Court assembled according to adjournment yesterday morning, with a full bench on magistrates. The following cases were disposed of: Robert H. Clarke, a free negro, charged with stealing $224 in Confederate money, $2.63 in silver, and several articles of jewelry, on the 16th of December, was put upon trial, found guilty, and ordered to be sold into slavery. Robert H. Cotton, of Texas, was examined upon the charge of kidnapping a negro from James City county, named Washington Simpson, with the intention of selling him as a slave. The Court, after a patient hearing of some of the testimony, for reasons which they judged good postponed further examination till the February term. Frank Downs, Michael Handley, and Arthur Leahy, charged with unlawfully entering the house of Mary Broderick and assaulting and beating her, besides stealing sundry articles of wearing apparel and some money, were put upon examination, and at the conclusion of the evidence were sent on