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The Daily Dispatch: March 17, 1864., [Electronic resource] 2 0 Browse Search
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ins was arrested for stealing $14 from the pocket of Joe, slave of John O. Taylor, The case was continued for further proof. Lewis, slave of Walter Hudgins, and John, slave of Wm. Sublett, were each ordered fifteen lashes for being caught by the watch without passes. The police having arrested sundry vagrants without visible means of support, they were committed to jail by the Mayor in default of security for their good behavior. They gave the names of James Baker, Wm. Conners, James Kelley, and Joseph Huston. They are all young, and members of the gang who have so long infested the city. Dick, slave of Mr. G. Wortham, was arraigned for committing an assault on Michelle Shay. The proof being ample, he was ordered 30 lashes. John McKinley, charge with feloniously assaulting and beating Wm. Douglas, was committed until the 15th instant for examination, the party who sustained the injury being unable to appear against him until that time. John Gennini was commi
Murder of a Sailor. --A seaman, named James Kelley, one of the crew of the ship Patrick Henry, lying in James river, near Drewry's Bluff, was murdered yesterday morning, about 7 o'clock, at the house of two white women of easy virtue, named Emma Brown and Maggie Jones, located on 24th, between Mam and Cary sts. The deceased received two stabs in the left breast from a small bowie or sheath knife, either one of which was sufficient to have ultimately caused his death. Kelley, after receivier one of which was sufficient to have ultimately caused his death. Kelley, after receiving the wounds was removed to the C. S. Marine Hospital, on Governor st, where he lingered in great pain for more than an hour, when death put an end to his sufferings. Soon after the wounded man breathed his last a jury of inquest was summoned, who, upon an investigation of the affair, returned as their verdict that he came to his death from stabs received at the hands of some person to them unknown.
Robberies. --John Ryne Alias Michael Sweeney, was yesterday arrested by officer Granger, charged with assaulting and robbing, on Monday night, James Kelley of one gold ring, valued at $50, and $200 in Confederate notes. Kelley is the same man who was stabbed and killed yesterday morning in a house of ill — fame located on 24th st., between Main and Cary. Henry Hicks, white, was also arrested on yesterday charged with having one gray shirt, one white shirt, and one door lock in his poKelley is the same man who was stabbed and killed yesterday morning in a house of ill — fame located on 24th st., between Main and Cary. Henry Hicks, white, was also arrested on yesterday charged with having one gray shirt, one white shirt, and one door lock in his possession supposed to have been stolen. Another white men, named Lewis Sledd, was arrested for stealing a decanter of whiskey, valued at $50, from Lew is Ante' otti. All of these parties will be before the Mayor this mornin
The Daily Dispatch: February 20, 1864., [Electronic resource], Suspension of the writ of habeas corpus. (search)
was remanded. Albert, slave of Mary Cullingworth, was ordered to be whipped for breaking into the house of Stafford Oliver, and stealing a lot of clothing valued at $200, the property of said Oliver. Henry, a negro man, belonging to John Hayes, of Ala., but who is attached to a regiment near Orange Court House, arrested for being in the city without a pass, was ordered to proceed forth with to his master's command. The case of John Ryan, charged with assaulting and beating James Kelley, (who has since died,) and stealing one gold ring from him worth $50, will be taken up this morning. John Eubank was required to give accurity for good behavior for twelve months on the complaint of Mrs. Mary Collins, that he had forcibly ejected her from rooms which she had rented of him, and that he had also taken from her the keys which belonged to the door of her bed-room. The Mayor also compelled him to deliver over to Mrs. Collins the keys which he had taken from her, and admo
Revolt of a penitentiary convict. --About 10 o'clock yesterday morning one of the prisoners employed in the shoe department of the penitentiary, named Kelley, attempted to murder Charles Morris, a cutter employed there. Kelley having some difficulty with Morris about his work, picked up a large billet of wood near at hand, and beat him till life was nearly extinct before he was interfered with by some of his fellow-convicts employed in the same room with him. Revolt of a penitentiary convict. --About 10 o'clock yesterday morning one of the prisoners employed in the shoe department of the penitentiary, named Kelley, attempted to murder Charles Morris, a cutter employed there. Kelley having some difficulty with Morris about his work, picked up a large billet of wood near at hand, and beat him till life was nearly extinct before he was interfered with by some of his fellow-convicts employed in the same room with him.
Hustings Court, yesterday. --William McKenzie, charged with stealing a mule, saddle and bridle from S. M. Williamson; Patrick H. Costello and John Howard, charged with assaulting and robbing Peter D. Bernard; John Ryan, charged with assaulting and robbing James Kelley; and Thomas J. Horaley, charged with robbing William Casper, were examined and remanded for trial before Judge Lyons. Patrick Murphy and William Crawford, charged with stealing a quantity of clothing from James A. Kelley; Wilson, a slave, charged with aiding and abetting a servant of Jas. Lyons to escape from his owner, were examined, adjudged not guilty, and discharged.
Pardoned. --James Clendenin, the penitentiary convict who interfered and saved Mr. Charles S. Maurice, a cutter in the shoe department of the penitentiary, from death at the hands of James Kelley, one of the prisoners, who made a murderous assault on him on Tuesday last, was, immediately after the occurrence of the affair, pardoned by Governor Smith, as a reward for his humane and honorable conduct.