Charge of burglary.
--Yesterday morning a man called
James Wood, an Englishman by birth, but a deserter from the
Yankee army and now a paroled prisoner, was arraigned before the
Mayor to answer the charge of burglariously entering the dwelling-house of
Mary Stevens, on the 30th of November, and stealing therefrom $260 in
Alabama State bank notes, $100 in gold and
silver coin, and a gold watch valued at $500.
The morning after
Mrs. Stevens was robbed she procured the services of
officer Perrin, and, accompanying him to
Dillard's boarding-house, near the
Second Market, pointed out
George Jacques as one of the robbers.
A portion of the stolen money being found on
Jacques, he was committed for trial.
Officer Perrin, at the time he arrested
Jacques, noticed that
Wood was a lodger in the same room.
On Saturday last
Mrs. Stevens received information that she could recover her money by calling again at Dillard's house.
She says she did so, when a small man, whose name she did not know, offered her an $100
Alabama note and $21 in
gold and
silver, that had been stolen from her. Being afraid to take it, she asked
Wood to receive it for her, which he did, and afterwards paid it to her in her own house.
Officer Perrin, on learning that
Mrs. S. had recovered more of her money, saw her about it, and learning that
Wood had brought it to her arrested him. --Before the
Mayor Mrs. Stevens exonerated
Wood, and he in turn gave the name of
William Leonard as the man of whom he received the money.
With these facts before him the
Mayor acquitted
Wood of the burglary, but retained him in custody to make inquiries as to why he has- been set at liberty and granted the privilege of the city, he being a Federal deserter.
