Mayor's Court.
--On Saturday morning last about two and a half hours were consumed by the Mayor in the disposition of the following cases:Mrs. Mary White, charged with receiving one Turkey satin scarf and one silk gown, which had been stolen from the Monumental Church some months since, was again before the Mayor. A female witness was introduced, who testified that she was present when a young man entered Mrs. White's store and offered the articles for sale. Upon a plausible reason being given how he came in possession of the goods, Mrs. W. bought them and put them among some other goods which she had for sale in the store. After hearing this testimony the accused was promptly discharged.
The charge preferred against Richard Wynant, of breaking into the store of N. Tinsley Pate and stealing therefrom twelve bottles of champagne, valued at $250; twelve bottles of wine, worth $200; twelve bottles of Scotch whiskey, valued at $300; and one bag of coffee, worth $1,500, the property of said Pate, was next taken up. At the conclusion of the testimony in this case, Wynant was remanded to the Hustings Court for examination.
The charge against Henry Temple, a negro, of cutting and wounding some man unknown, was again postponed for further testimony.
John Ryan was charged with beating Jas Kelly, and stealing from him $200 in Confederate money and a gold ring valued at $50. Several witnesses were examined in this case, whose evidence was sufficiently convincing to induce the Mayor to send him on to the Hustings Court.
A soldier named William C. Gay, who obtained lodgings in the watch house on Friday night last upon his own application, was ordered by the Mayor to proceed immediately to his regiment.
William, slave of Henry Atkinson, was ordered to be whipped for having in his possession seven bottles of liquor, and a lot of crushed sugar, supposed to have been stolen. The whiskey and sugar can be found at the Mayor's office, where the owner can go and identify it.
A negro boy named George was whipped for stealing two chickens from Washington Jenkins.
Patrick McKenna was fined five dollars for allowing an unlawful assembly of negroes to assemble at his house. He was also charged with renting a house out to negroes in violation of a city ordinance; but the Mayor, in consideration of McK's professed ignorance of the law and promise to comply with it in future, dismissed that charge against him.
John Boucher was given till this morning to have a dilapidated cellar door on his premises repaired, which had been complained of as a dangerous place to persons passing in that vicinity.
Lt. H. L. Burton, alias John A. Clashmer, was brought before His Honor on the charge of stealing from Patrick Doran, on Thursday night last, $100 in Confederate money, a check for $200 on a Georgia bank, and some other papers of greater or less value. The testimony in this case proved that the accused slept in the room with Doran, at the War Department, on the night in question, and that some time before day he robbed the pockets of the complainant of the articles enumerated above. The check and a part of the money was afterwards found on the person of the accused. He was remanded for examination before the Hustings Court.
