Wholesale stealing.
--William,
Henry, and
Lewis, three servants employed at
Hospital No. 4.
were before the
Mayor yesterday to answer for stealing sundry pieces of bed clothing and other articles of the Confederate Government.
Our searching the ledging-rooms of the prisoners the officers found four blankets, three sheets, two bed spreads, three pairs of pants, and six bags, stolen from the
Government, twenty-three spoons, one fork, one towel, and one table, stolen from
John F. Batheal; six shirts; one coat, one handkerchief, and two pairs of socks, belonging, to
Richard Jennings, and a set of spoons blacked St. Charles Hotel.
Henry and
Lewis were punished for the
St. Charles spoons, and all three were sent on fear stealing from the
Government.