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The Daily Dispatch: September 19, 1864., [Electronic resource], Police arrests. (search)
them the facts of the case. After diligent inquiry, these officers arrested Cyrus upon suspicion, and carried him before Captain Chastain, who immediately recognized him as the driver to whose charge he had committed his bacon. As usual among most negroes when arrested for stealing, Cyrus at first denied being the driver, but afterwards, upon being questioned closely, he owned that he was the man, and stated that, soon after leaving Captain Chastain, a white man ordered him to drive up to Robinson, Adams & Co.'s store, (which was then closed,) and put the bacon out on the pavement, which he did. Subsequently, however, officers Kelly and Moore obtained from him a confession which enabled them to find about two-thirds of the bacon at his stable and in the loft of the kitchen occupied by his wife. The rest of it, Cyrus acknowledged that he sold and gave way to a negro associate of his, whose name he pretended to have forgotten. He was locked up in the upper station-house. A negro