Mayor's Court.
--The
Mayor presided at this Court yesterday morning, and disposed of the following business:
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Pat Connelly was arraigned on the charge of stealing from
Mrs. Frazier, in the
First Market, a pot of butter.
Connelly held a paper from the Tredegar Iron Works stating that he was a discharged Federal prisoner, and had been employed in that establishment.
The
Mayor continued the case until Saturday next, and remanded the prisoner to jail until that time.
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Joseph Brannan, a white man, charged with feloniously stealing three boxes of tobacco, six decanters, and eight glasses, valued at $100, from
George T. Ferguson, proved a full partnership in business, and therefore was discharged.
Brannan and
Ferguson were the proprietors of a restaurant, but lately B. desired to sell out to F., as he wished to leave the city; this F. was not able to do, and suggested that the concern should be disposed of at auction, in order to settle up the business.
To this
Brannan objected.
Since then, however, while F. was sick in bed, B. took from the restaurant the articles enumerated above and sold them.
Believing that such a proceeding was wrong, the complaint of stealing was instituted by F., resulting in the discharge of the accused, as stated above, the
Mayor deciding that one partner right to dispose of at least half without committing a felony.
August Rupert, whose case was continued from Saturday, appeared yesterday to answer the charge of trespassing upon the premises of
John Clasby and using threatening and abusive language to
Mrs. Mary E. Clasby.
In this case it appears that the Clasbys are sub-tenants of Rupert, the latter claiming an exclusive right to the use of the passage.
To this R. objected, and enforced his protest so far as to have the look-taken-from the door, for which complaint was made and a mass of testimony on each side given.
His Honor bound Mr. and
Mrs. Rupert over to keep the peace in the sum of $150 each, thereby conceding to the complainants the right to the passage way.
Rupert's entrance is through his store.
Dick, slave of the city of
Richmond, was ordered twenty lashes for having in his possession on Saturday night last a lot of coat, supposed to have been stolen from the gashouse.
Seaton Anderson, charged with being a runaway from the batteries, was sent back after a hearing by the
Mayor yesterday.
A charge was preferred against James, slave of
James Moore, of being out after hours without a proper pass and having a pair of shoes in his possession supposed to be stolen.
Jim proved his right to the shoes, and, in consideration of his promise never to appear out again after hours without proper credentials, he was discharged.
Wm. Forrest, the young man charged before the
Recorder, a few days since, with unlawfully entering the house of
Brown, Pessley & Co., and whose case was continued till yesterday morning, made his appearance to answer.
The accused was in company at the time of the occurrence with two others, one of whom, it appears, took from the premises a pistol and a large sturgeon knife.
Forrest was the only one of the three captured.--When first brought to Court he signified his readiness to appear against the other two, and readily gave their names to the officers, denying on his part any intention to commit a wrong.
The officer sent to arrest the parties who escaped failed to find them, and testified to the good reputation of the prisoner; he was considered a young man of fine character, in his
Captain's opinion, and was one of his best soldiers.
Upon this evidence, and the promise of
Forrest to return immediately to camp, he was discharged.
Philip, slave of
Wm. E. Thornton, arrested without a pass and improperly out in the street selling papers, was sent to jail till called for by his master.
John R. Mountcastle was fined $10 for driving a pair of horses at an unlawful gait down one of the public streets.
Martin Murphy, sent to the chain-gang on Saturday for failure to give security for good behavior for ten months, in the sum of $500, has been liberated therefrom, the proper security being given His Honor yesterday morning.
