Small cases.
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George Nelson and
Calvin Henry, charged with stealing four dozen sora from a market cart, were examined before the
Mayor yesterday, and remanded for trial at the next term of the Hustings Court.
Michael Leary and
John Hamilton, charged with fighting in
Mrs. Canary's bar-room, presented a most dismal aspect as they stood before the
Mayor.
Leary, it was stated, behaved very badly during his incarceration at the watch-house, while
Hamilton was as docile in all respects as a sucking dove.
The consequence was that the former was sent to jail in default of security to keep the peace, and
Hamilton, who wears the garb of a soldier, was discharged from custody.
Lawrence H. Kelly, another gray jacket, who claimed to belong to the Fourth Louisiana Battalion, was arraigned for taking a dollar note from a lad named
Henry W. Shaw, at
Stecker's store, and striking
Mrs. Stecker on the head with his musket.
The prisoner had been drinking most copiously; but as one crime is no apology for another, the
Mayor committed him to jail in default of $150 security to keep the peace.
Hiram Barnes, (gray jacket No. 3,) who claims to be a man of great wealth, and to hail from
Stokes county, N. C., has of late devoted his entire attention to bar practice, and has four times been taken into custody for exceeding the rules of professional decorum, by reeling to and fro like a drunken man in the thoroughfares of the
Southern capital.
The
Mayor's patience having become exhausted by these repeated violations of moral and civil law, could no more extend the hand of clemency, and on yesterday the unfortunate
Barnes was committed to jail for want of a friend to become his surety in the sum of $100.
Three free negro women, named
Eliza A. Smithers,
Louisa Jenkins, and
Mary Thomas, who, it seems, are in the habit of carrying dirk knives and cowhides about their persons, were up yesterday for threatening to ‘"kill and beat"’
Rebecca Williams.
If the charge is sustained, it will develop a most atrocious disposition on the part of the prisoners, inasmuch as even a Cannibal would be satisfied with beating first and killing afterwards.
The case was continued until to-day.
Edward Sullivan, a small boy, arrested for drunkenness, was discharged from custody with some good advice from the
Mayor, which the hopeful youth will do well to heed.
