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The Daily Dispatch: April 16, 1863., [Electronic resource], The Williamsburg affair. (search)
James McGee was charged with assaulting Alonzo Travers with an iron poker. It was in proof that the defendant and Wm. H. Travers were joint proprietors of the Alabama House, opposite the Spotswood Hotel. on Main street, and that they had some difficulty relative to the proportion of profits to which oath was entitled.--McGee thought Travers had set his son to watch his movements, and when Travers the elder, had temporarily disappeared he commenced abusing the young man, and finally assaultTravers the elder, had temporarily disappeared he commenced abusing the young man, and finally assaulted him with a poker. The opportune arrival of the father with a drawn pistol prevented further violence to the son. The Mayor remarked to McGee that difficulties might be settled with pokers in Baltimore, but such was not the case in Richmond. He curity to keep the peace. It having leaked out that liquor had been sold in the house without a license, the Mayor fled Travers $50. M. Jacobs gave bail to appear before Judge Meredith for trial for being engaged in the recent "riot." The