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The Daily Dispatch: March 18, 1861., [Electronic resource], A man and Woman Bitten by a cat in Church. (search)
Stealing a horse
-- Bat Meekins, a colored fish dealer, from Charles City, was put in the cage Saturday morning for stealing, two weeks since, an old grey horse, worth $10, belonging to another colored brother, named Hilton Winston.
The accused said the animal was given to him, at the time named; by Dan'l Scroggins, who expressed a desire to get it off the street.
Scroggins, since then, has been put in the Chain-Gang.
Meekins will be brought before the Mayor this morning.
During Saturday, the Mayor heard the testimony in the case at the watch-house, and ascertained the offence not to be felony.
He bailed Meekins in $150 for his appearance.
The Daily Dispatch: February 17, 1862., [Electronic resource], Why Fort Henry was surrendered. (search)
Mayor's Court.
--We append a summary of the proceedings before the Mayor on Saturday.
Thomas H. Clarke, arraigned for stealing a gold watch worth $50 from Franklin Minor, had his case continued until the 17th on secount of the absence of an important witness.
The case of Thomas Wilson, charged with stealing a silver watch from N. N. Church, was continued till Monday.
Hilton Winston, the colored driver of a carriage, was placed to the bar to be tried for stealing $50 werth of clothing from Pamela Nicholas.
In proof that complainat had given her property to prisoner with the design of being conveyed to a boarding-house, she being on her way from Petersburg to Manassas as a nurse, and that in searching for the accommodation desired she had staid in some place quite long, and prisoner had gone off with her baggage, afterwards, however, reporting the circumstances to the police.
He was discharged.
John N. Dunn and John Kearney were sent to jail for fighting in the 1s