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The Daily Dispatch: July 30, 1863., [Electronic resource], Will the Western Powers of Europe permit the Union to be restored? (search)
12 and 1 o'clock yesterday morning, as Mr. Beverly J. Jordan, of Henrico county was returning to hich he was supposed to have upon his person. Mr. Jordan, it seem passed down Broad at every night tohen getting near the than who was approaching, Jordan stepped off to the light of the path. When th opposite the robber halted, perceiving which, Jordan attempted to turn to ascertain in the cause, as he did to the robber fired, the had striking Jordan on the right side, and being fired obliquely, ighborhood of the back bone, where it lodged. Jordan instantly fired his pistol two or three times,he neighbors could procure lights they went to Jordan's assistance, and learning from him all that hnced and there found the dead body of a man. Mr. Jordan had a physician called to him who promptly en., for there seems to be no doubt they knew Mr. Jordan's h knew his time of going home, knew that hho accompanied. Elder in his attempt to rob Mr. Jordan, was round death at some point on 24d street
The Daily Dispatch: July 31, 1863., [Electronic resource], An Authentic account of Morgan's Great raid through Kentucky, Indiana and Ohio. (search)
Convicts --John Eider, the garroter, who was killed last Wednesday night while in the act of assassinating Beverly J. Jordan; William Martin, the man who claimed the cap that Eider wore at the time he was killed; and William Cummings, the man to whom he said be loaned his cap to on the afternoon before the murder and who must have exchanged it with Eider; are all three penitentiary convicts, and desperate characters. Martin is now in custody. He has trade such a variety of statements as to where he was on the night of the shooting that he will find some difficulty in clearing his skirts of the charge of being an aider and abettor in the attempted murder.
The Daily Dispatch: July 31, 1863., [Electronic resource], An Affray in St. Louis. (search)
Not true. --The report, in circulation last Wednesday night, that the body of a dead man had been found on 23d street that evening, supposed to be the accomplice of the garroter Eider, who was killed by Mr. Jordan the night before, turns out to be untrue. Mr. Jordan fired at the ascend man that advanced upon him, but it is feared that the that did not take effect. Not true. --The report, in circulation last Wednesday night, that the body of a dead man had been found on 23d street that evening, supposed to be the accomplice of the garroter Eider, who was killed by Mr. Jordan the night before, turns out to be untrue. Mr. Jordan fired at the ascend man that advanced upon him, but it is feared that the that did not take effect.
The Daily Dispatch: August 1, 1863., [Electronic resource], Recognition (search)
ordered his room to be searched. The officers ascertained that the accused had been to his boarding house that morning and changed his clothes, but the black pants could not be found. Mr. John V. Sterling testified, that as he came by Mr. Harwood's stable on Union Hill, at half-past 4 o'clock that morning, he saw the prisoner, Martin, standing near the door, shaking his coat and brushing his clothes, as if he had slept in the straw. And the officers at Camp Maryland stated that Martin was not in camp on the night of the murder. Justice Baker remanded Martin till Friday next, by which time it is hoped the city or county police will capture Cummings. We understand that there were five men in the party who went out to murder and rob Jordan — that one of them has been wearing the uniform of a Confederate officer, he being a penitentiary convict — and that they followed him from his house, knowing he carried large sums of money when he left his place of business at nigh
The Daily Dispatch: August 1, 1863., [Electronic resource], "Hope from Outside." (search)
Union Hill Homicide. --The Coroner's inquest over the body of John Elder, who was killed by Beverly J. Jordan on Tuesday morning last, concluded its labors yesterday morning, and rendered a verdict that Elder came to his death by a wound inflicted by Jordan, after Elder had feloniously assaulted and attempted to assassinate JJordan, after Elder had feloniously assaulted and attempted to assassinate Jordan, and that Elder was aided and abetted in the attempted assassination by William C. Martin and William T. Cummings. Elder, Martin, and Cummings are all penitentiary convicts, and were regarded by the police of Richmond as exceedingly dangerous men. Jordan, after Elder had feloniously assaulted and attempted to assassinate Jordan, and that Elder was aided and abetted in the attempted assassination by William C. Martin and William T. Cummings. Elder, Martin, and Cummings are all penitentiary convicts, and were regarded by the police of Richmond as exceedingly dangerous men.
The Daily Dispatch: August 12, 1863., [Electronic resource], Latest from New Orleans. (search)
An Abettor. --William Martin, charged with aiding and abetting John Eider in his attempt to assassinate and rob Beverly J. Jordan, on Union Hill, (by which attempt Eider was recently killed, and Jordan seriously wounded,) has been examined and sent on to the Court for a further hearing. An Abettor. --William Martin, charged with aiding and abetting John Eider in his attempt to assassinate and rob Beverly J. Jordan, on Union Hill, (by which attempt Eider was recently killed, and Jordan seriously wounded,) has been examined and sent on to the Court for a further hearing.