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The Daily Dispatch: November 11, 1864., [Electronic resource], Three hundred Dollars Reward. (search)
Sudden death. --Captain John Caphart, the venerable-looking Confederate States detective, so long connected with Castle Thunder, died very suddenly yesterday morning from old age and disease of the heart. He was summoned about four o'clock in the morning to the bedside of a sick daughter, and in a few minutes after entering her room he complained of dizziness, when he laid down at the foot of her bed and was a corpse in less than a quarter of an hour. Captain Caphart was a native of k daughter, and in a few minutes after entering her room he complained of dizziness, when he laid down at the foot of her bed and was a corpse in less than a quarter of an hour. Captain Caphart was a native of Norfolk, Virginia, and was well known as a vigilant member of the police department of that city from early manhood up to the breaking out of the war, when he left the service of the State and entered that of the Confederate Government. He was upwards of seventy-five years of age.