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Husting Court, Judge Lyons presiding.

--In Judge Lyons's Court yesterday James Egan and Barney McNamee, for robbing Josiah King, of South Carolina, of his pocket book containing $30 in money, were sent to the Penitentiary for three years each.

Augustus Synco, formerly of Norfolk, Va., late C. S. detective, was arraigned for shooting Ella Johnson, a prostitute, in Exchange Alley, some weeks since. Hon. Humphrey Marshall and Daniel Ratcliffe, Esq., appearing for the prisoner, and Littleton Tazewell, Esq., for the Commonwealth. The jury, after an absence of some hours, brought in a verdict of guilty, and his punishment was assessed at three years in the Penitentiary.

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