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The Daily Dispatch: April 30, 1861., [Electronic resource], The cruise of the Niagara. (search)
Disorderly House. --Yesterday, before the Mayor, Ellen Jones, free proprietress of a disorderly house, was whipped, as was Mary Fettus, Lavinia Trent, Ellen, slave of C. A. Hall, and Ellen James, who were found therein.
The Daily Dispatch: October 20, 1862., [Electronic resource], Two days later from Europe. (search)
on of the bacon, and both were consequently sent before the Court of Hustings, for trial, on the second Monday in November. Bill for their appearance was given. Betsy and Claiborne, slaves of Wm. Collingswood, were brought up for stealing 14 head of cabbage from Mrs. H. E. Hibble. The testimony made it appear that Betsy was most to blame, and she was ordered to be punished. Sundry negroes, including the following, viz.--Eliza Ann Smithers, Mary Fox, Chas. Henry, Dick Meekins, Lavinia Trent, Sally Boasman, free, and Henry, slave of Mrs. E. J. Cill, Charles, slave of Mrs. Dennis, John and Mary, slaves of Mrs. Lavinia Hall, were arraigned for being in an unlawful assembly at the house of Ellen, slave of Mrs. Hall, near the corner of 12th and Cary streets. The parties were engaged in having a "colored fancy ball," and a number of white men were present. The entry of the police spoilt the fun, as they proceeded to capture the fiddler and the white and colored visitors and carr
The Daily Dispatch: November 14, 1862., [Electronic resource], From the South. (search)
Arrests. --The city police arrested yesterday Elizabeth, slave of Mr. L Stratton, and Lavinia Trent, a free negro, without papers, for trespassing on the Henningsen Hospital. A white man named George Brown was taken in custody by Officer Crone, of the day police, for urging a horse attached to a buggy through Main street at an unlawful rate of speed. Brown was intoxicated at the time.
The Daily Dispatch: November 15, 1862., [Electronic resource], article 9 (search)
of that Market, selling lumps of butter purporting to be pounds, for $1.50, which did not weigh but twelve ounces. The Mayor ordered a dozen lumps, weighing only twelve ounces each, to be confiscated to the use of the city. William Flements, arrested for the murder of Michael Horan, at Roache & Carter's, in Henrico county, was committed for examination until Saturday morning. The grounds of suspicion against the party did not transpire. Elizabeth, slave of M. L. Stratton, and Lavinia Trent, free, were punished for trespassing on the Henningsen Hospital. Peter, an ancient darkey, owned by Hazall & Co., was ordered 20 lashes for stealing a piece of meat from G. Gotleib, at the 2d Market-House. George Brown, arrested for being drunk and running races up 17th street with a horse and buggy, was committed for want of surety to appear before the Hustings Court Grand Jury and answer an indictment for misdemeanor. Brown said he didn't do anything for a living now, but th