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The Daily Dispatch: December 24, 1863., [Electronic resource], The Averill Raid. (search)
t Tuesday night, and brought before the Mayor yesterday, on charge of violently assaulting and shooting at Hugh Regan, with the intention of murdering and robbing him. The circumstances connected with this affair are these:--Jones, who seems to have been the mere cat's-paw of Gunn, a notorious ruffian and shoulder hitter, informed Regan that he knew a Yankee deserter who had a quantity of Federal "greenbacks," which he wished to dispose of, and made an arrangement with Regan to meet the "Yank," on Saturday last, at a place named on Cary street. Regan prepared himself with $11,000 in Confederate notes, and appeared at the place designated. Jones was also present, but excused the absence of the owner of the greenbacks, and appointed Monday at 9 o'clock, at R. H. Allen's house, for the consummation of the trade. Jones's man was again absent, and that afternoon was fixed upon for a meeting, but something was wrong, and Tuesday evening after sundown at Allen's house, on the south sid