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The Daily Dispatch: February 28, 1863., [Electronic resource], For Hire. (search)
r of shoes and a sum of money. The case was continued until Saturday. After the above parties were identified with the robbery at Epstin's, the officers found a place where Preston had expended $50 of the stolen funds in the purchase of a bonnet for a female acquaintance. Martha slave of Jas. T. Vaughan was examined for an attempt to murder Ann, infant daughter of her master, by means of poison, which she administered to it. The examination resulted in her being committed for trial before the Hustings Court. Security for good behavior was required of Jas. Baker and Catharine Summers, for entering the house of Susan Wright in a boisterous manner, and disturbing the inmates thereof. Wm. Winston, charged with assaulting Henry Welchold with a loaded pistol, was balled to appear on the 2d of March and undergo an examination. Geo. Major, drunk and disorderly in the Theatre, was fined $1. Jacob Bailey, free negro, without a register, was committed till March 2d.
The Daily Dispatch: April 28, 1863., [Electronic resource], The mails — Mail contractors. (search)
Yankee prisoners, &c. --There were yesterday in the Libby prison 349 prisoners of war — the majority of them being officers; 2 citizen prisoners; 19 deserters from the Yankee army and 23 negroes included in the prisoners of war was 28 Yankees that arrived yesterday from Mobile, who was captured on the 12th inst, at Pass A Loptre, Louisiana. They composed the officers and crew of the towboat Fox, captured by a daring feat of sixteen of our men. Among the number is Capt, John Fox, Chief Engineer M. B. Woltrey, Pilot. Wm. Winston, and Mate John Devlin. It is understood that Judge Ould and Col. Ludlow, the Commissioners for the exchange of prisoners, have had an agreement by the terms of which all the Yankee officers now here (two Brigadier Generals included) will probably be sent home this week.
The Daily Dispatch: May 15, 1863., [Electronic resource], article 10 (search)
t manner than could have been expected. Their thefts were confined chiefly to horses and mules, (every one of which were taken,) to corn and bacon, hogs and fowls. Among those who were most indeed treated was Mrs. Col. Harris, the wife of Gen. Beauregard's chief engineer. This most estimable lady was very harshly treated — had her house broken into, and much of her furniture, &c., broken, and every living thing on the place, save the human beings, killed. At Mr. Woodson Payne's, Col. Wm. Winston's, and Mr. Jas. Thompson's, they behaved nearly us badly.--On leaving the cross roads they killed all the horses and mules that they could not carry off with them. Some two hundred were knocked in the head. The neighborhood will, of course, for some time be intolerable. The narrow escape of Lt. Harmar Gilmer, of the engineer corps, formed one of the most interesting events of the raid. He had in his possession a very valuable to pographical map of an important portion of this cou
The Daily Dispatch: February 8, 1864., [Electronic resource], Mayor's Court. (search)
ested on Friday night on the charge of stealing pig iron from the Richmond and Danville railroad, appeared before His Doner for examination; but, owing to the absence of testimony, the case was postponed till this morning. A youth named William Winston, arrested for stealing from the smoke house of James W. Turner, on Friday last, a shoulder of bacon, appeared to answer the complaint. At the conclusion of the evidence, Winston was directed to be taken to the Provost Marshal. The examWinston was directed to be taken to the Provost Marshal. The examination of witnesses against Henry, the property of John N. Goddin, charged with stealing, some time since, five kegs of lard from John O'Neal, proved the justice of the complaint, whereupon the Mayor remanded the accused to be further examined before the Hustings Court. Peter and Raymond, negro boys, arrested in the house on Main street, said to have been kept by Hungerford & Degroot as a faro bank, were ordered to again appear before the Mayor this morning. Nelson, slave of Capt. Wa
The Daily Dispatch: June 21, 1864., [Electronic resource], Mayor's Court, yesterday. (search)
John and Mary Scott, free negroes, were charged with stealing sixty dollars' worth of chickens from William Henry, also free. The parties are next door neighbors, and the morning after the robbery blood was traced from Henry's hen-house into the yard of the accused, which excited the suspicion that they were the thieves. Search was made, but none of the stolen fowls were found. The Recorder did not deem the charge sustained, and thereupon discharged the accused. William, slave of Wm. Winston, charged with receiving a gold watch belonging to Martha Payne, a free negro, knowing it to have been stolen, was demanded for examination before the Hustings Court. The complainant testified that William's wife stole the watch, but she had since successfully eluded arrest. Upon the person of the accused the time-piece was found, which he acknowledged was given to him by his wife. Frank, slave of Wm. Granger, was charged with being engaged in the fifteen hundred dollar robbery, on