The Daily Dispatch: December 2, 1861., [Electronic resource]

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The Swine Stealers.

--The case of a negro woman, charged with surreptitiously obtaining a supply of pork, noticed on Saturday, led other parties into difficulties, which brought them up all standing, like bristles on the fretful pork upine. Strange to say, though hogs have been stolen from somebody, that somebody is recorded upon the police book as The Unknown. Thus, a negro named William, a confederate of the woman above-mentioned, was punished on Saturday for stealing a hog from The Unknown, making the second African who has suffered for depriving that mysterious personage of his property.--No. Three was a free negro by the name of Mortimore Redman, in reality a black man, who gave the information that led to the arrest of the others. It came out in the examination that he was addicted to practices which would be inexcusable even in a Grand Turk, and the Recorder sent him down also under sentence of thirty-nine. From all we can hear the end is not yet.