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The Daily Dispatch: November 26, 1863., [Electronic resource], The Yankees in Greenbrier (search)
Examining Court. --A Court of Magistrates was held in the City Hall yesterday for the examination of Peter Reynolds, charged with stabbing and causing the death of John Gordon, a paroled Yankee prisoner, at the house of Ann Thomas, on Cary street, some few weeks since. The evidence showed that Gordon caused a difficulty by eulogizing the Lincoln Government, for which Reynolds gave him a blow in the mouth with a spittoon, another party inflicting the stab which resulted in death. After aing the death of John Gordon, a paroled Yankee prisoner, at the house of Ann Thomas, on Cary street, some few weeks since. The evidence showed that Gordon caused a difficulty by eulogizing the Lincoln Government, for which Reynolds gave him a blow in the mouth with a spittoon, another party inflicting the stab which resulted in death. After a hearing Reynolds was remanded for trial at the next term of Judge Lyons's Court, and his bail fixed at $1,000, in default of which he was sent to jail.