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Commonwealth as Job Adkins.
--The above defendant, well known as the author of a book on minin r watch, worth $10. Turner told the Mayor that Adkins had met him, knocked him down, and took the pr picious were excited.
That at the time he and Adkins, who roomed with him whenever in town, were to ht hold of him by the collar of his coat, when Adkins struck him in the mouth, drawing blood.
The a les S. Mills testified that he had appointed Mr. Adkins agent of the Midlothian Coal Company; the tr he had unbounded confidence in his integrity.
Adkins, besides being honest, was, in his opinion, an ied that at any time within the last ten years Adkins could have gotten from his friends all the mon the case was continued until to-morrow, and Mr. Adkins admitted to bail in $500 for his appearance ave on his lip just such a scar as he admitted Adkins gave him on the night of the 1st of June, unde that it is to come up again.
In justice to Mr. Adkins we may say, that however honest his accuser
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The Daily Dispatch: February 14, 1862., [Electronic resource], Address from a South Carolina (?) lady at Albany in Denunciation of the South . (search)
Honorably Acquitted.
--The Mayor yesterday resumed the examination of the complaint made by Edward Turner against Mr. Job Adkins, of knocking him down and taking from his person two watches, on the 1st of June, 1861. Some additional testimony was adduced, but none that could be deemed specially relevant to the question at issue.--Turner, at the conclusion of the evidence, read from notes the heads of an argument he had prepared against Mr. A., which the Mayor listened to with exemplary pa nce alleged against him, made it his duty to acquit him honorably of the implication sought to be cast on him. He did not question that T. lost his watches, but there was no proof that the party accused took them.
With those who have known Mr. Adkins long and intimately, no enology of that gentleman is needed; and with those who do not, if they have read the proceedings in this case, his reputation as an honorable man can suffer no detriment.
The whole affair proves that the best of men ar