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The Daily Dispatch: December 5, 1863., [Electronic resource], From the Rapidan. (search)
en their departure, Miss Price discovered that one of her trunks, containing goods valued at $2,500, had disappeared, and dispatched a friend for the police. Capt. Pleasants receiving the message, repaired in person to the scene, and getting such information as he could procure, started in search of the thieves. He soon learned that two young men had been seen carrying a trunk down Cary street, and taking the trail followed them down to the Louisiana Restaurant. --Procuring a light, Captain Pleasants entered the building, and in a room occupied by the Gunels the lost trunk was found. The two young men; when the officer saw them, were partially undressed, questioned they first stated that the trunk had been brought there by a servant, but afterwards said that a friend had left it there. On examining the trunk Capt. Pleasants discovered marks near its hinges, as if an effort had been made to cut off the top, and, comparing the knife-blade with the marks, saw that they fitted each o