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The Daily Dispatch: March 19, 1863., [Electronic resource], The Yankees at Yorktown. (search)
Convicted of horse stealing. --A man named Albert W. St. Clair was tried before Judge Lyons yesterday, at the City Hall on the charge of stealing a horse, the property of John J. Oscorn. The jury, after hearing the evidence and arguments of counsel, retired, and brought in a verdict of guilty, assessing the term of St. Claire confinement in the penitentiary at three years. The defendant is the same person who, not long since, forged the name of Mrs. Fanny Mathias to a permit to get a license to marry her daughter, which he afterwards did.--He was under indictment for the offense at the time he was convicted of horse stealing. However, on the rendition of the verdict, the Commonwealth's Attorney, with the advice and concert of the Court, entered a nolle prosequi, St. Clair was dressed in a faded Confederate uniform, and looked as if he had been once in the service. Shortly after his arrest for forgery the party whom he had married absented herself from the city, leaving in com