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The Daily Dispatch: December 4, 1862., [Electronic resource], Address of a member of Parliament on recognition. (search)
f the highest respectability as one who never drank, or did anything else wrong. On such assurances he had employed him. How he had been imposed on the present case would show. Hustings Court, Wednesday Dec. 3 Judge Wm. H. Lyons Presiding--Peter Doyle and John Dunn were tried for stealing Julius M Gan t's horse, valued at $200. This is the same case in which Thomas Do son, a lad, is held for trial as the principal in the affair. The jury acquitted the prisoners. The case of John A. Whitman, a boy, charged with forging a one dollar Virginia Treasury note, and attempting to pass the same, was next called. Counsel for defendant demurred to the sufficiency of the indictment, for errors apparent on its face and the motion being argued, the Judge sustained the same, quashed the indictment, and remanded the prisoner for new action on the part of the Grand Jury. Sentenced to be Hung.--Yesterday a negro named John, slave of Robert B. Lyne, was tried before Messrs. Nettles, B