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The Daily Dispatch: April 3, 1863., [Electronic resource], "Shall speculators be longer Tolerated?" (search)
Mayor's Court--Thursday, April 2d.
--William H. Ross, a free negro, was examined (by Recorder Caskie, who presided in the absence of the Mayor,) for feloniously stealing $1,600 in C. S. notes from Joseph Stuckenberg.
The robbery, as previously related, occurred in a house on Main street. The witness, desiring to wash his face, pulled off his great coat, one pocket of which contained the money, and laid it on the counter of the store.
Ross being therein.
When he had completed his ablutions he took hold of his coat and found Ross and the pocket book non est inventus. The Recorder sent the prisoner (who has long been a notorious character,) to jail, fRoss and the pocket book non est inventus. The Recorder sent the prisoner (who has long been a notorious character,) to jail, for trial before the Hustings Court on the second Monday in April.
Patrick McGarra, who had rendered himself liable to police surveillance by getting drunk and lying down on sundry sidewalks, was sent to jail in default of security to be of good behavior.
It appeared that Pat had arrived from the South a short time since with