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The Daily Dispatch: January 21, 1862., [Electronic resource], article 3 (search)
Bloody affray. --An affray took place last evening at the Central depot, in which N. L. Green, an attache of the Monument Hotel, was shot by a pistol said to have been fired by Jos. Wagner; and J. K. Blake, a member of the McCulloch Rangers, was badly cut by Green. We did not hear that the wounds were fatal, although severe. Wagner was the only one of the party arrested. The difficulty grew out of an old fend between Green and Blake, and Wagner acted as Blake's friend. Bloody affray. --An affray took place last evening at the Central depot, in which N. L. Green, an attache of the Monument Hotel, was shot by a pistol said to have been fired by Jos. Wagner; and J. K. Blake, a member of the McCulloch Rangers, was badly cut by Green. We did not hear that the wounds were fatal, although severe. Wagner was the only one of the party arrested. The difficulty grew out of an old fend between Green and Blake, and Wagner acted as Blake's friend.
The Daily Dispatch: January 22, 1862., [Electronic resource], War matters. (search)
after hearing the statements of witnesses, required both Gilman and Willis to give security to keep the peace, and be of good behavior for twelve months. Joseph Wagner was arraigned on the charge of shooting Norman Green, near the Central depot, Monday afternoon, This affair was noticed in yesterday's paper. The difficulty b entering the floor. The parties were then separated. Between four and five o'clock, they met again near the Central depot. Blake seized Green, and called upon Wagner, who is a member of the same company, to shoot, him. Wagner accordingly drew his revolver, and "popped away" at Green, the ball entering the neck, and grazing thee, Green had disengaged himself from Blake's grasp, and drew a small bowie-knife, with which he stabbed Blake several times. Mr. J. D. Williams promptly arrested Wagner, and turned him over to officer Blankenship. The other belligerents were not arrested. The Mayor remanded Wagner for examination before the Hustings Court.
The Daily Dispatch: February 12, 1862., [Electronic resource], The Sequel. (search)
slave, the property of John Tyler, was tried for stealing $160 in bank notes from. James B. Grant, on the 13th day of January, and ordered 39 lashes. Fendall Thomas was examined for stealing, on the 1st of December, 1861, a gold chain, worth $25, from Geo. Purcell, and acquitted. Joseph Calvin Henry was examined for maliciously cutting and stabbing Pryor, a slave, on the 15th of January, with intent to kill. The prisoner was remanded for trial before Judge Lyons's court. Joseph Wagner was examined for feloniously shooting Norman Green, on the 20th day of January, and remanded for trial before Judge Lyons. Mary E. Allen, charged with a felony, in stabbing Wm. T. Chalkley in the left breast, on the 5th day of February, in Lombard alley, was examined and acquitted. On motion of the Attorney for the Commonwealth, rules were awarded against Andrew Pizzini, E. K. Woodward, and Theo. Elmore, for not attending as jurors when summoned. Alfred Hill, free negro,
The Daily Dispatch: February 18, 1862., [Electronic resource], Latest Northern News. (search)
presentments. --The grand jury of inquest in and for the body of the city of Richmond, Geo. W. Smith, foreman, was yesterday sworn in Judge Lyons's Court, and having received their charge, retired, and returned with true bills against the following persons for felony, viz: Richard L. Bohannon, Wm. Clarke, John Dawson, Peter Disney, James M. Elmore and Tazewell Carr, Chas. Girth, Joseph C. Henry, Wm. N. Miller, Luke McKenna, Jacob Schoff, Andrew Sullivan, John T. Smith, James Slater, Joseph Wagner, Elizabeth Woodcock, John Walthall. The case of John Hagan, for alleged extortion in obtaining money from James Evans to employ a substitute in the battery, was called up by Mr. Hagan's attorney, who argued against the legality of Evans being sworn as a witness and sent before the grand jury to testify against their client. After hearing arguments pro and con, the Judge took time to consider. The grand jury, after making the above presentments, adjourned until Monday next at 1
The Daily Dispatch: February 25, 1862., [Electronic resource], The Federal Congress. (search)
ls entrusted to his care. We append a list of those who succeeded in getting off — viz: Jas. Elmore and Taswell Corr, jointly charged with robbing an Alabama soldier of money; Andrew Sullivan, lately convicted of shooting a soldier near the Central depot, and sentenced to two years in the penitentiary; Calvin Henry, indicted for stabbing a negro with an oyster knife; Wm. Clarke; a Yankee deserter, lately convicted of grand larceny, and awaiting a two years residence in the penitentiary; Joseph Wagner, charged with shooting a soldier, and awaiting trial; J. Fritz Kreibel, the murderer of Philip Sautter, whose arrest was lately chronicled; John Williams, charged with robbing a boarder at the Columbian Hotel, and Joseph Keller, the precocious lad who robbed. Dove's apothecary store — making, in all, nine as unmistakable scamps as could be picked up in a day's walk. The plan of escape was judiciously conceived and expeditiously carried out. In justice to the jailor, we may state that o
The Daily Dispatch: February 28, 1862., [Electronic resource], article 2 (search)
s Commonwealth, civil and military, and request the people generally, to use their best exertions to procure the arrest of the said parties, that they may be brought to justice. Given under my hand as Governor, and under the Lesser Seal of the Commonwealth, at Richmond, this 27th day of February, in the year 1862. John Letcher. By the Governor. Geo W. Munford, Secretary of the Commonwealth. Description of the escaped prisoners. James Finors is about 21 years of age five or eleven inches high, blue eyes, dark hair, has a scar over one of his eyes, and walks with turned in. Andrew Sullivan, an irishmen by birth, dark complexion, 21 or 22 years old, and shout six feet high. J. Calum Hezay, about 20 years of use, light complexion, and about five feet three or four inches in height Joseph Wagner is 24 or 25 years old, has a rad head, and in about five six or eight inches high, and wears a uniform. William Clark is a Yankee, about 35 or 37