Mayor's Court.
--The following cases were brought before the
Mayor yesterday morning:
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The charge preferred against
Lieut. Robert C. Shriver, of stealing $970 in gold, $250 in silver, $76 in greenbacks, $500 in Confedererate notes, and a gold watch chain and one pistol, valued at $600, from
Wm. Caspari, some time since, will be investigated on Saturday next.
The particulars of the robbery are that Caspari, his wife, and another person, who had procured passports to do so, were traveling to the
North in a conveyance of their own. On their way they stopped at a country inn somewhere in
New Kent county, to obtain something to eat, and remained all night.
Early next morning four Confederate cavalrymen rode up, and, pretending to be provost guards, whose duty it was to arrest and examine the papers of all persons going through our lines, demanded and obtained from Caspari and his wife all the papers, money, &c., which they had about them.
The passports were pronounced insufficient to take them through the lines, and the levanting party were therefore required to remain behind at the tavern till the bogus guard visited the
Colonel's headquarters which they said was in the neighborhood, and ascertained what could be done.
It is needless to say that the guard never returned.
Soon after the robbery a man named
Wm. J. Horsley was recognized by Caspari in this city as one of the party who robbed him, and upon an examination before the
Mayor he was remanded to the Hustings Court, before which tribunal he is now awaiting trial.
On Monday last,
Shriver, who had been reported as the principal actor in the affair, was known to be in the city, and the police succeeded late in the afternoon in making his arrest.
The accused is a young man of genteel appearance, and looks very little like a person of dishonest inclinations.
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Owing to the absence of witnesses the
Mayor postponed taking up the charge preferred against Fanny, slave of
Samuel Skinner, and Abby, slave of
Mary Voss, the first with stealing and the latter with receiving one bond for the payment of $100 due from the
Confederate States, and three twenty-five cent pieces, from
Mrs. Pemberton.
James Roach,
August Haffner, and --
Crouch, youths, were charged with stealing a splendid cloth cloak from
the Rev. Mrs. T. V. Moore on Saturday last.
The evidence proved the accusation against them, and they were therefore remanded to the Hustings Court for further examination.
Jordan Miller was also sent on to the grand jury for indictment on the charge of receiving said cloak, knowing it to have been stolen.
On Saturday last a lot of writing paper was stolen from the office of the
Commissary General, located on Main, between 9th and 10th streets. Yesterday a young man, named
Richard L. Bohannon, was before the
Mayor, charged with committing the crime.
He was, after an examination of witnesses, sent on to the Hustings Court for trial.
Bohannon is but a few degrees above an idiot in mental capacity, and it is very doubtful whether he is capable of understanding the nature of the offence which he has been guilty of.
William, slave of
George Douglas, was committed to prison to answer the charge before the Hustings Court of entering the store-house of
John O'Neill, some time since, and stealing therefrom five kegs of lard.
Henry Temple, a negro, charged with stabbing and cutting, sometime since, an unknown man, and whose case has been continued a half dozen times in order to find out who the wounded party is, was yesterday discharged.
Henry Salmon, a boy of mixed blood, hailing from
Petersburg, was brought up on the charge of stealing one hog from
Peter Disney.
In consideration of his youth the
Mayor ordered him to be sent back to
Petersburg, with instructions never to return to this city.
