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The Daily Dispatch: July 9, 1861., [Electronic resource] 2 0 Browse Search
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The Daily Dispatch: July 9, 1861., [Electronic resource], article 6 (search)
Court commenced yesterday at 11 o'clock, at the City Hall. Present, Aldermen Sanxay, Bray, Binford, Timberlake, Hill and Anderson. Charles Maurice Smith; who has been commissioned as a Notary Public, qualified as such by giving the usual bond. Nathan, a free colored man, confined in jail for want of his "papers," was directed to be sold for so long a time as will pay the costs of imprisonment, and then to be registered. Benjamin Reid, charged with feloniously cutting William J. Somerville, on the 18th of June, was examined and sent on to be tried before Judge Lyons, in September next. In the case of Jaives Harwood, presented for fighting on 14th street, a nolle prosequi was entered on payment of costs. Jacob, slave of M. Todd, and William, slave of Beverley Sizer, charged with stealing sundry bank notes and gold coin from M. E. Price, on the 22d day of June, were tried and acquitted. Fountain Rowe, charged with stealing bank notes and gold and silver co
The Daily Dispatch: June 8, 1863., [Electronic resource], Depredations of the Yankees. (search)
Trial of Skill. --On Saturday last William Flatt and Wm. J. Somerville were called before the Mayor to answer the charge of being engaged in a fight on Friday afternoon. Officer Crone, who arrested the parties, testified that they had met in the Valley, near Carrington's mill, where they stripped to the buff, and were putting in from their shoulders when he saw them. In walking a few hundred yards to get to the parties, he saw Flatt knocked down four times, and Somerville's mourning pœpers showed that he had not escaped unpunished. The parties stated that they were merely taking a friendly set to, neither of them being in ill humor; but the Mayor informed them that such amusements were not tolerated in this community, and he should therefore hold each to bail for their good behavior, and require them to answer before the grand jury for their offence.