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The Daily Dispatch: December 5, 1862., [Electronic resource], Proceedings in the Courts. (search)
aken cession to evaporate from the prisoners' dock. He amount of calling would make him respond. The examination of Smith resulted in his being sent on for grand larceny. This course had been pursued in a half dozen other cases heretofore pending against him, but with great good luck he has always passed the ordeal of a jury in safety. Reed and Smith also stand charged with robbing the Linwood House of a watch and other articles, for which they are yet to answer. John W. Brown, George Hoppell, and Peter H. King, were committed for examination before the next Hustings Court for grand larceny in entering John H. Scribner's room and stealing several hundred dollars' worth of wearing apparel from that individual. Frank Crofield, driver of a sand cart, and Wm. Pitts, both of this city, having been arrested for breaking into a stable owned by Asa Snyder, corner of 9th and Cary streets, and stealing a chisel from Green & Allen; also, for setting fire to Snyder's building, and b
The Daily Dispatch: December 11, 1862., [Electronic resource], Army letters. (search)
uilty of grand larceny if convicted, but the Court putting aside the fictitious valuation proceeded to try Jones for petty larceny and Cousins for receiving the proceeds of his theft. Both were found guilty, and ordered each 39 lashes. A summons was issued against John R. Allen to show cause why he should not be fined for allowing his slave, Wm. Jackson, to go at large. A summons was issued to compel the attendance of Thomas Haggarty as a witness in behalf of Jno. W. Brown and George Hoppell, charged with grand larceny. Ned Patterson, free negro, convicted March 13th, 1860, of remaining in the Commonwealth contrary to law, persisting in so doing, after being allowed time to go away, was brought up and sentenced to be sold as a slave. John Rouke was found guilty of permitting his slave, Russets, to go at large, and fined $20 and the costs of Court. C. S. District Court.--This tribunal was in session yesterday, but did nothing beyond recognizing a few witnesses
The Daily Dispatch: December 12, 1862., [Electronic resource], Providential escape. (search)
poles on Main street, Wednesday night, and otherwise conducting themselves in a way violative of good order and decency. Each was required to give $250 security not to repeat such conduct for one year. David Lambert, of Brook Avenue, was required to give security to be of good behavior on the charge of getting drunk and firing a pistol in one of the public streets. Hustings Court--Thursday, Dec. 11. --Presents Recorder Caskie and Aldermen Lipscomb, Clopton, and Anderson. George Hoppell and John W. Brown were examined and sent on for trial before Judge Lyons, for breaking into John H. Seribner's sleeping apartments and stealing several hundred dollars' worth of wearing apparel from him. Peter C. King. found in the street by Scribner in possession of one of his coats, was examined and discharged, it appearing that Brown, one of the above parties, had made him a present of it. Patrick Murphy and Joseph Mitchell were tried by jury for making a violent assault on Mary
The Daily Dispatch: January 6, 1863., [Electronic resource], From the Border. (search)
The Recent Garreting case in the City jail. --Ellas Vanderlip, Patriak Cunningham, George Hoppell, John Kelly, Julius Desplanque, Wm. Hannan, Thomas Tyror, James Barry, John A. Whitman, and John Barry were carried to the Hustings Court room yesterday, at 11 o'clock, and arraigned before a called Court, composed of Recorder Caskle, Senior Alderman Sanxay, and Alderman Bray, Lipscombe, Timberlake, Gwathmey, and Baveridge, to undergo an examination for committing a felony in the city jail on the 23d of December. The Mayor's warrant charged that the parties above named being on the 23d of December prisoners, lawfully confined in said jail, they did feloniously make an assault on one Isaac Jacobs, there confined, and by putting him in bodily fear did steal from his person five hundred and sixty-seven dollars in Confederate States Treasury notes, a sliver watch, worth fifty dollars; one gold chain of the value of one hundred dollars; one finger ring of the value of five dollars, and tw
The Daily Dispatch: March 2, 1863., [Electronic resource], article 12 (search)
olina Lezace and Myer Myera, charged with receiving a lot of dry goods stolen from Chiles & Chanery, were examined and sent on to the Husting; Court on the second Monday in March. Mrs. Mary Connors, her daughter, and Fanny Houston, were held for further inquiry to be made on a similar charge against them. Hustings Court, Saturday, Feb, 28--Judge Wm. H. Lyons proceeding. James S. Tyler was put on trial for stealing a horse valued at $200, the property of Elizabeth Houpt. The jury found him guilty and assessed the term of his confinement in the Penitentiary at two years. The trial of George Hoppell, for consulting and robbing Linnaman Farrell in the city jail, was then commenced, and was to be followed by that of Jno, A. Whitman a lad charged with forging a one dollar Virginia Treasury note and attempting to pass the name. Josiah H. Goodman was trial before third Court on Friday for stealing two blankets from C. W. Spicer, of the Columbia Hotel, and acquitted.
The Daily Dispatch: March 3, 1863., [Electronic resource], article 4 (search)
Carried to the Penitentiary. --George Hoppell, who was convicted on Saturday in Judge Lyons's Court of being concerned in garroting Linneman Farrell in the city jail, and sentenced to three years imprisonment, was carried thither on yesterday. A youth named John A. Whitman, put in the city jail for forging and passing a one dollar Virginia Treasury note, who was concerned in the some transaction, was also convicted, and received the arms sentence. The City Sargeant also carried him to the State's prison yesterday, along with James S. Tyler sent for two years, for stealing a horse belonging to Elizabeth Houpt. Judge Lyons's Court was engaged the whole of yesterday in trying an unlawful detainer case. One or more criminals will be tried to-day.
The Daily Dispatch: March 5, 1863., [Electronic resource], The Situation in Middle Tennessee. (search)
Hustings Court. --George Hoppell was tried before Judge Lyons in the Hustings Court yesterday on the charge of being engaged in garroting and robbing Isaac Jacobs in the city jail. Sundry other parties engaged in the same transaction had already been sent to the Penitentiary, and Hoppell himself had been sent up for garroting Lieneman Farrell, a soldier in the jail. The jury, after hearing the evidence of Jacobs and others, returned a verdict of guilty and accessed his term of confinement at three years in the Penitentiary. Sentence was immediately pronounced on the accused. John H. Brown was next tried for breaking into a room occupied by John H. Scribner and stealing $180 worth of clothing. The robbery was accomplished with the aid of Geo. Hoppeli, who, after being put in the jail, engaged in several enterprises which insured him a several years' adjourn in the Penitentiary. Though jointly indicted with Brown, the prosecution against Hoppell for the abduction of Scrib