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The Daily Dispatch: July 17, 1862., [Electronic resource], article 1 (search)
Police Court, July 16th. --A number of cases were adjudicated yesterday by the Head of Police, a brief summary of which we subjoin: Elizabeth Osborne, a colored female, was charged by John Thompson, a slave, with having a lot of stolen corn in her possession. The defendant introduced as witnesses on her behalf two sleek-looking darkies. John Scott and wife, who live at the corner of 1st and Byrd street, and inhabit a mysterious house, around which the Head of Police said he had often se the gay equipages seen from time to time around the domicil were filled with personages of as equally gay sort, viz: flash women of the town, who went to have their fortunes told — as if their fortunes needed any telling. The State's witness, (Thompson,) inveighed against the Scotts, stating that they connived at the reception of the corn by Osborne, and that the female Scott had caused the death of several darkies by her sorceries. The Scotts denied they were fortune-tellers, and the sitting