The Daily Dispatch: January 19, 1864., [Electronic resource]

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Appeal taken.

--The Mayor yesterday rendered as his decision in the case of Ann Dean, a negro cyprian, charged with interrupting Miss Anne Thompson a white woman of loose reputation, a few days since, that she should receive five lashes. He had held the matter under advisement for a few days, in order that he might examine into legal authority, and, having done so, he could not do otherwise than order her to be punished. The question with him was not as to the relative good character of the two women, (for he was free to confess that for orderly behavior and general good deportment Dean stood much higher than her white accuser,) but whether the charge had been proved in fact. He (the Mayor) thought it had been, and he therefore felt bound to deal with her as he would with any other negro arraigned before him on a similar accusation. If the counsel for the accused desired to take an appeal to the Hustings Court, he would cheerfully grant it. An appeal was therefore taken, and Ann Dean was recognized in the sum of $100 to appear for trial.