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The Daily Dispatch: September 19, 1864., [Electronic resource], Mayor's court. (search)
ill Tuesday. Peter Meeks, a member of the Nineteenth Virginia regiment, charged with robbing William, slave of John Bray, of a silver watch, valued at $30, was remanded for examination before the Hustings Court. The facts of the case showed that Meeks met William in the street and inquired the time of day.--When the watch was taken out, the accused grabbed it from the negro and put it into his pocket, leaving the chain in the owner's hands. The watch was afterwards recovered. John Thornton, charged with assaulting and beating Charles Jordan Miller, was sent on for indictment by the Hustings Court grand jury. The appearance of both parties in court showed that they had been severely punished in the fight which had taken place between them. William T. Mitchell, formerly a resident of Lynchburg, made complaint against a respectable citizen of this place that he had made an assault upon him in the public street, and after knocking him down, took from his pocket a gold wa