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The Daily Dispatch: November 24, 1863., [Electronic resource] 10 0 Browse Search
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The Daily Dispatch: November 24, 1863., [Electronic resource], Latest from the North. (search)
Horse-stealing --The police had before the Mayor yesterday morning a young man known as James Spicer, commonly called "Jim Crack," on the charge of stealing a horse, worth $500, from the Albemarle Battery, in June last. Spicer was a member of the battery, and, in company with a young man named Miller, who has since been sent to the Penitentiary for his part of the offence, appropriated two o Richmond on a frolic. They had only been here a few days when the police captured Miller, but Spicer escaped. Lieut Carier, who then had the matter in hand, kept a look-out for Spicer, and on SundSpicer, and on Sunday night captured him. The Mayor heard the testimony of the Commonwealth's witnesses, and, as the prisoner had no counsel, and seemed to desire no defence, committed him to prison to answer before an e no defence, committed him to prison to answer before an examining Court in December. Spicer is apparently about twenty years of age, and is known to the police as a young man of dissolute habits.
The Daily Dispatch: January 29, 1864., [Electronic resource], Re-enlisting for the War in General Lee's army. (search)
Attempt to Break jail --Yesterday morning, between 10 and 11 o'clock, John P. Gunnell, Wm. Gunnell, (brothers,) Wm. Frick, and Jas. Spicer, attempted to make their escape from the the city jail. By means of climbing up from the northeast prison yard to the second story window, they succeeded in squeezing through between a hole which was caused by the breaking off of one of the bars, and, crossing the passage, had gained the opposite room on the second floor, occupied by Mr. Frederick Hall, the jailor, before they were discovered. As soon is the alarm was given, Mr. Hall, single handed, seized on to two of them, and after a desperate struggle held his ground until assistance came to his relief. The other two immediately ran down the steps into the front yard, and one commenced unfastening the large iron gate which confines the prisoners in the yard fronting on Marshal street, while the other went round to the south western side of the building and commence unbarring that door,