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The Rocketts murder.

--Most of the Mayor's session, last Saturday morning, was spent in the examination of Sydney Wicker, John Champion, Charles Tensor, and John Carter, charged with stabbing and killing George P. Wright alias Doyle, on the 2d of July. The witnesses generally implicated Wicker and Champion in the affray, none of them testifying that Carter was engaged in it. The Mayor remanded all the prisoners for examination before the Hustings Court on the 25th inst, and admitted Carter to bail in $1,000, because of his light suspicion of guilt.

The Daily Dispatch: July 20, 1863. Richmond Dispatch. 2 pages. by Cowardin & Hammersley. Richmond. July 20, 1863. microfilm. Ann Arbor, Mi : Proquest. 1 microfilm reel ; 35 mm.

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