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The Daily Dispatch: July 23, 1864., [Electronic resource], Mayor's Court. (search)
cases were docketed in this Court yesterday, of which the following is a list of the most interesting: James R. Shumaker, who has been in jail some three or four weeks, charged with having in his possession a horse stolen from some person unknown, was brought up for a hearing. The case has been called and postponed from time to time since his arrest, in order that some claimant to the animal might present himself, which contingency has at last been met. William S. Carr, a courier for Gen. Hoke, claims the horse as his own, and produced a witness to substantiate his statement. About forty days since, during the progress of a fight near Gaines's Mill, Carr was advised not to ride his horse in front of our lines while carrying his messages, for fear of being shot at by the enemy's sharpshooters, and accordingly left him in the rear of the army, under the care of an infantryman, whom he did not know. In about thirty-five minutes afterwards he returned to the spot, but the man and