The Daily Dispatch: November 24, 1863., [Electronic resource]

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Horse-stealing

--The police had before the Mayor yesterday morning a young man known as James Spicer, commonly called "Jim Crack," on the charge of stealing a horse, worth $500, from the Albemarle Battery, in June last. Spicer was a member of the battery, and, in company with a young man named Miller, who has since been sent to the Penitentiary for his part of the offence, appropriated two horses belonging to the Government. deserted their company, and came to Richmond on a frolic. They had only been here a few days when the police captured Miller, but Spicer escaped. Lieut Carier, who then had the matter in hand, kept a look-out for Spicer, and on Sunday night captured him. The Mayor heard the testimony of the Commonwealth's witnesses, and, as the prisoner had no counsel, and seemed to desire no defence, committed him to prison to answer before an examining Court in December. Spicer is apparently about twenty years of age, and is known to the police as a young man of dissolute habits.