Mayor's Court, yesterday.
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John Hamilton, a white boy some fourteen years of age, was brought up on a charge of vagrancy.
He claimed to be in the service of
Mr. R. H. Stevens, of
Norfolk, and was committed to jail to await the further order of the
Court, when his employer shall have been consulted.--
William Cooper, a free negro, notorious for his predatory propensities, was arraigned on the charge of having in his possession a gold watch valued at $100, without being able to prove his property therein.
The watch was committed to an officer for safe-keeping, and the negro to jail for ten days, during which time the facts of the case may come to light.--
Daniel Worrell, charged with assault and battery upon his wife, and clearly proved by the testimony of several witnesses to have been guilty of great cruelty towards her, as well as of using language not at all becoming in a citizen of this republic — namely, that he, a Pennsylvanian, intended to kill at least one
Virginia woman — was held to bail in the sum of $150 to keep the peace, and especially towards his wife, and for his appearance before the Hustings Court in November next to answer an indictment.--Samuel Rich was arraigned for a felony by him committed in stealing one twenty-dollar Confederate note from the pocket of
Julius Seipt on Monday night last.
The complain and could not speak
English, and first one and then a second interpreter was sworn to assist him. A vast mass of testimony was adduced, of one sort and another, but the guilt of the accused became less and less clear, until finally the
Court discharged him.--The case of
James Burnes, for assaulting
Catharine Lowry, was continued.--
Catharine Lowry, charged with being drunk and disorderly in the streets, was discharged.--
Timothy McMahon was sent to jail on the same charge.--
Antoni Beville, arrested on the same charge, was discharged upon condition that he should at once return to
Fredericksburg.--Peter, a slave of
William Ragland, charged with assault and battery upon
Josephine King, a free negress, was ordered twenty lashes.
