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The Daily Dispatch: June 16, 1864., [Electronic resource], Mayor's Court, yesterday. (search)
pretty well sacked with whiskey, and rendered night hideous before her arrest by load curses and yells, during which she brandished a formidable bowie knife, and threatened death and destruction upon any one who attempted to molest her. As she was leaving the court room, on her way to jail, some one accidentally stepped on her dress, which so excited her ice that she pitched into him in handsome style — with her tongue.]--Jordan Miller, receiving a horse, valued at $300, the property of Edwin J. Duval, knowing the same to have been stolen; Jan. R. Shumsker, charged with stealing a saddle and bridle from Chas. A. Snowden; Eliza Whitehurst, for stealing a diamond breast-pin, belonging to Lt. Col. Jas. Nelligan; and Susan Thompson, Mary Burke and Kate Fitzgerald, charged with receiving one dozen knives and forks, belonging to the Medical Purveyor's Department, knowing them to have been stolen. John C. Allen and L. Abrams were each fined for permitting their servants to go at large,
The Daily Dispatch: July 12, 1864., [Electronic resource], Hustings Court. (search)
Hustings Court. --The Hustings Court of Magistrates met yesterday and transacted the following business: David Lewis and John J. Bowlar, charged with stealing a horse valued at $3,000 from Edwin J. Duval, was tried, and after an examination of witnesses and argument of counsel, Lewis was discharged, but Bowlar was remanded for trial before Judge Lyons's Court. Jordan Miller, charged with buying E. J. Duval's horse, knowing it to have been stolen, was sent on to Judge Lyons's CourE. J. Duval's horse, knowing it to have been stolen, was sent on to Judge Lyons's Court for final trial. Eliza Liggan, charged with stabbing Albertino Cephas, was examined and sent on for trial. Ball was allowed her in the sum of $500; but, being unable to give it, she was remanded to prison. Charles Doherty, charged with robbing John Driscol of $170 in C. S. money, was examined and sent on for final trial before Judge Lyons. Macklin, slave of A. J. E. Jennings, charged with robbing M. L. Jacobson of a large lot of dry goods, was ordered to receive thirty-nine la
The Daily Dispatch: July 15, 1864., [Electronic resource], Scene in a Justice Court in Texas--a Yearling case under Consideration. (search)
Released upon a writ of Habeas corpus. --Jordan Miller, charged with buying a horse, the property of Edwin J. Duval, which he knew to have been stolen, was examined before the Hustings Court on Wednesday, and sent on for trial before Judge Lyons.--The prisoner was refused ball, whereupon his counsel sued out a writ of habeas corpus,which was heard before Judge Lyons yesterday, when that functionary reversed the decision of the Court and admitted Miller to ball in the sum of $5,000.