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Artful Dodger.
--A suspicious looking character, calling himself Charles Jells, was arrested at the Exchange Hotel yesterday on the charge of entering several rooms of that establishment with a false key for the purpose of robbery.
A companion had been caught trying the same dodge, to raise the wind, the previous day, and locked up.
The Daily Dispatch: September 10, 1862., [Electronic resource], The reported capture of Cincinnati . (search)
Hustings Court.
--This tribunal was in session yesterday, Recorder Caskie presiding, and Little ton Tazewell, Esq., prosecuting, in the absence of the Commonwealth's Attorney.
Timothy Reardon and Charles Jells, the two men charged with abducting Charles E. Hansford's trunk from the American Hotel, two weeks since, were examined, and the fact of the larceny being established against them, they were sent to jail for final trial before Judge Lyons.
The trunk contained articles valued at $600--Henrietta, a slave, was tried for the larceny of $53 worth of Confederate Treasury Notes, and was acquitted.--Emma Jane, a slave, was tried on the charge of assaulting and beating a child of Mrs. Ellen Faley, and for abusing Mrs. Faley, and was declared not guilty by the Court.--James A. Harrison and James McGiniss, two soldiers were arraigned for stealing a sum of money from Jno. Roberts.
The Court directed that the Sergeant of the city should take them before the Provost Marshal, in order