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The Daily Dispatch: December 3, 1862., [Electronic resource], From Fredericksburg. (search)
at the time. It appears that the inmates of this prison comprise some most abandoned characters, who are in the habit of insulting ladies and others who have occasion to pass the place. This became so intolerable a nuisance that by order of Capt. Booker the windows were boarded up half way; but these boards being pulled aside, the practice of spitting on people, and applying opprobrious epithets to them, was pursued with increased vigor. Strict orders had been issued for the sentinels to compel the inmates to keep their heads within the windows, and conduct themselves properly Yesterday, during Capt. Booker's absence, Minter commenced abusing and spitting on the sentinel for telling him to put his head in. The command being repeated the usual number of times, the man raised his piece and fired, the ball passing in between his eyes and coming out of the top of the skull. He lingered several hours and then died. Minter was a native of Fluvanna, and came from near Columbia, in that
The Daily Dispatch: December 3, 1862., [Electronic resource], Yankees in Mathews county. (search)
Worthy of Yankeedom. --We are informed by Capt. R. M. Booker, Assistant Provost Marshal, of the following piece of rascality perpetrated by four men on another, which as it has often had its counterpart, may deserve relating: The parties alluded to, named A. S. Hazzle, H Hurdle, and Jas. A. Minor, of North Carolina, and P J of his life" All the parties named in connection with the matter having, at one time or another, been inmates of the military station of the Western District, Capt. Booker was enabled to trace out the whole affair, so as to leave no reasonable doubt but that Hassle and his three comrades were the authors of the robbery, as well asion here. One of the party, James A. Minor, was arrested by the city police Monday evening on the charge of forgery, and was yesterday morning turned ever to Capt. Booker by Recorder Caskie, to be dealt with by military law The whole system of substituting in the army has been no less a cheat on the individual spending his money
The Daily Dispatch: December 3, 1862., [Electronic resource], Mast killed in Mississippi. (search)
as continued until the 3d December, on account of the absence of witnesses. The case of Madison Griffin, for forging the name of John Griffin, and obtaining $15 from Richard Reins, was postponed until December 10th. The case of James Riley and Patrick Brannon, for unlawfully and violently assaulting and beating Thomas and Sarah Ward, was continued until the 6th of December. James A. Minor, a soldier, from North Carolina, arrested on the charge of forgery was handed ever to Captain Booker, Assistant Provost, Marshal, of the Western District. Thomas W. P. Goodman, a countryman, arrested for stealing Horatic H. obson's horse, was acquitted of that charge, but sent to jail in default of $500 security for his good behavior. Sydney Robinson, slave of Hartley Graham, war sent on to an Examining Court to be held December 8th, for causing the death, by stabbing, in December, 1861, of Bob Napper, slave of Sarah Waddell. Emanuel Olliberg, arrested for exposing his