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The Daily Dispatch: May 30, 1863., [Electronic resource], The elections. (search)
Execution of a Malefactor. --A negro man, Richard, owned by Miss Rosalie P. Sampson, of New York, and held for her benefit in trust, by P. H. Aylett, Esq, C. S. District Attorney, was executed yesterday, at 15 minutes to 1 o'clock, by the Sheriff of Henrico and his assistants, in the yard of the old jail, at the Court House. Richard was convicted before the County Court of King William county of making a murderous and unprovoked assault on Atwell F. Pitts, manager on Mr. Aylett's farm, onMr. Aylett's farm, on the 30th of last January. His trial took place on Monday, April 27th, at King William C. H., resulting in his condemnation. Shortly after committing the offence for which he suffered he was brought to Richmond for safe keeping, but was carried back on the day of his trial. The accused, who was a stupid, stolid, and vicious-looking negro, had persistently refused to say anything of the reasons that induced him to attempt the murder of Mr. Pitts until yesterday, when the near approach of death
The Daily Dispatch: May 30, 1863., [Electronic resource], Our Glorious Soldiers. (search)
Substitute Swindling. --Two men, named Charles Felburg and Thomas Delan, were arraigned before the Mayor yesterday, charged with forging a substantia paper and obtaining $2,600 from John Smith, a German, under false pretences. Mr. Aylett, District Attorney, appeared against the prisoner, Mr. J. H. Gilmer for the defence. It appeared that Smith had been commissioned by a friend to get him a substitute, and had been furnished with a paper by Felburg certifying the reception of a man in the army for which he disbursed $2,000. From the evidence, it appeared that the signatures of the officers purporting to receive the substitute had been forged, also the name of John Withers, Assistant Adjutant-General, giving his assent to the transaction. It was intimated in Court that one of the prisoners (Felburg) was a regular substitute agent, and had accumulated considerable money in that way. The precise connection that Dolan had with the transaction did not appear. Sundry witnesses of re