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The Daily Dispatch: April 4, 1864., [Electronic resource], From General Lee's Army. (search)
Robberies. --The store of Mr. Robert B. Somerville, on 12th street, near Cary, was broken open Friday night and robbed of nine half barrels of brown sugar, a half box of tobacco, and ten gallons of wine — the whole valued at $8,000. The thieves forced off the grating of the basement window, and effecting an entrance into the cellar, got up into the store by bursting up the trap-door. The building on 10th street, south of the basin, formerly occupied as a barracks by the City Battalion, was broken into by burglars and three trunks, filled with valuable property, belonging to James H. Haner, stolen. Among other things the trunks contained two watches, one gold and very valuable, and the other galvanized. The whole of the stolen property was not worth less than fifteen thousand dollars. On Saturday night some thieves broke into a store-house in the yard of Mr. James Dornin, on 29th street, near Franklin, and stole five hundred pounds of salt pork. The smoke-house of
The Daily Dispatch: January 26, 1865., [Electronic resource], Scott and Taylor. (search)
Richmond Circuit Court, January 25th, 1865. --Judge John A. Meredith. The matter of petitions for writs of habeas corpus of Robert B. Somerville, Samuel M. Drinker, Charles Lumsden and Peyton G. Bayley came on this day to be heard, they seeking discharge from service in Colonel J. B. Danforth's regiment, second-class militia, under joint resolution of the Virginia Legislature, as being over fifty years of age; and it being proven to the satisfaction of the court that they were over said age, they were discharged from service and bailed until the 4th of February to await the decision of the Court of Appeals in the case of William H. Redwood. Upon the prayer of James Pearce, asking discharge under same circumstances, a writ was awarded, returnable this morning at 11 o'clock. After transacting some chancery business, the court adjourned until this morning at 11 o'clock.
The Daily Dispatch: February 13, 1865., [Electronic resource], Croakers. (search)
his decision affects the status of a large number of gentlemen in the city — about eighty, we think,--who are members of the Foreign Legion, and who, under it, will have to continue to do service in this regiment. An appeal was taken by counsel in the case, and it will be taken up to a higher court if the Court of Appeals will grant the "writ of error." Messrs. Lyons and Aylett appeared for the affiants. Mr. J. Randolph Tucker represented the Commonwealth. Messrs. James Pearce, Robert B. Somerville, Samuel M. Drinker, Jacob Moebus, Michael Ganzert, Charles Lumsden, Leon Goldsmith, Edward M. Morgan and Peyton G. Bayly, members of Colonel Evans's regiment, over fifty years of age, appeared in court to-day in pursuance of continuances, and, proving their ages, were discharged. I. H. Walke, failing in the proof, was remanded to custody. Adolph Bentel and George Lintz, not having their witnesses in court, their cases were continued until Tuesday and subpœnas issued for witnesses.