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The Daily Dispatch: January 18, 1865., [Electronic resource], American Affairs in England. (search)
Mayor's Court. --Yesterday's proceedings in this court will be found below: Tom, slave of E. W. Tompkins, charged with stealing a ham of bacon from his master, was ordered to be whipped. Sylvan Jerraw and Noah D. Reed, Texas soldiers, who stand charged with feloniously assaulting, in the night time, and robbing David Currie of his watch, were up for a hearing. Several witnesses were examined, and their evidence proving conclusively the guilt of the accused, they were remanded for examination before the Hustings Court. George Norton, a white man, was charged with walking the streets on Monday night arm-in arm with a negro woman. The accused was discharged, it having been shown that he was very drunk at the time of the occurrence. The charge of stealing a trunk and contents, valued at three thousand dollars, the property of Samuel M. Wilson, and one other trunk, containing gold, silver and copper coin, preferred against George, slave of Thomas T. Catlett, was
The Daily Dispatch: January 18, 1865., [Electronic resource], Literary items. (search)
Escape of a prisoner. --A prisoner, named Sylvan Jerraw, who was sent on to the Hustings Court yesterday by the Mayor on the charge of knocking Mr. David Currie down a few nights since and stealing his watch, made his escape from the court-room soon after the decision was given. His colleague in the crime states that Jerraw, instead of resuming his seat in the prisoner's box after the decision of the case, took another direction, and walked out of the building in company with three or fouuming his seat in the prisoner's box after the decision of the case, took another direction, and walked out of the building in company with three or four other persons who passed out at the same time.--Upon his person, on the night of the robbery; the watch taken from Mr. Currie was found. Up to a late hour last night he had not been found; and as it is stated that he is a Confederate scout, and has papers permitting him to pass our picket lines, the probability is that he will not be caught.