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The Daily Dispatch: February 27, 1862., [Electronic resource], Disgraceful riot in Lynchburg. (search)
Courted. --An athletic young thief, named John Harper, was tried before Judge Lyons's Court yesterday, for an attempt, several weeks since, at the Columbian Hotel, to steal all the wearing apparel of an invalid Georgia volunteer, named Richard A. Cox. The witness said he would be back to testify at the final trial if alive, and being very sick at the time, and not making his appearance yesterday, the inference is that he died. The case went to the jury without his testimony; but the evidence was so direct that they found the prisoner guilty and assessed his term of imprisonment in the Penitentiary at two years.