The Daily Dispatch: October 15, 1861., [Electronic resource]

Hustings Court.

Licenses to keep ordinaries were issued to Jacob Wallner, Emelia Agnesia, and John Fry.

Accounts for police service were allowed to R. T. Seal, J. R. Blankinship, E. H. Chalkley, W. T. Bibb, and B. M. Morris; and account for holding inquests to George A. Freeman, High Constable.

A fine of $10 and costs was imposed upon Orlando Shay for permitting his slave John to go at large.

Auguste Zahn, charged with feloniously cutting Augustus Miller, on the 9th of October, with intent to kill, was examined, and the Court remanded him for final trial before Judge Lyons.

James M. Tyler, charged with swindling John W. Kiser out of $71.50, on the 20th of September, was examined and acquitted.

George Black, formerly connected with the Polish Brigade, was examined on the charge of stealing a gold watch, worth $125, from Junes Broderick, on the 13th of September, and remanded for final trial before Judge Lyons.

A rule was awarded against Robert A. Mayo, to show cause why he should not be fined for permitting his slave Simon to go at large and hire himself out contrary to law; and a similar summons against The Bass for allowing his slave Branch to go at large.

The examination of Opie Staite, for forging a court order for the payment of money, was continued, on his motion, to the next term of the Court.