Mayor's Court.
--Yesterday morning the following cases were brought up for the
Mayor's consideration:
John Dollan, charged with robbing
Thomas D. Marlow of thirty two and a half pounds of pork, valued at $195. Case partially investigated and then continued till this morning for further testimony.
Three white females, named
Sarah Ann Leverman,
Malinda Brown, and
Octavia Durell, charged with being persons of evil fame, were remanded to prison for want of security to keep the peace and be of good behavior for twelve months. Augustus Field,
John Egerton, and
Alfred Baker, arrested on the charge of being persons of evil fame, and deserters from the
Confederate service, were ordered to report forthwith to the
Provost Marshal.
James Edwards,
James Doyle,
Thomas Emory, and Robert,
Hite, were charged with stealing two trunks, containing a valuable assortment of
wearing apparel, the property of
Mrs. Mary Johnson.
The testimony for the
Commonwealth was of such a character as to determine the
Mayor to remand
Edwards,
Emory, and
Hite, for further examination before the Hustings Court.
Doyle was discharged.
A similar decision was announced in the case of Ann Page, a free negroes, charged with receiving the above articles, knowing them to have been stolen.
Ann Finn and Ellen and
Margaret Brown, the first charged with using abusive and threatening language towards James B
Smith, and the two latter with being free negroes from
Culpeper county, without proper papers, were proven to have been captured in that county some time since by our pickets, but after an examination before a court martial turned loose in
Richmond on their "parole of honor." The officer who arrested them testified that their character was of the worst kind, and that the house in which they lived (on Exchange alley) was one of the lowest, most disreputable kind.
They claimed protection from the Confederate Government on the ground of being involuntary sojourners here, and stated to the officer that they had been in the habit of drawing rations from the
Government through
Capt. Warner, the
Commissary for the prisoners confined in
Richmond.
Upon hearing these facts, his Honor discharged them with the remark that if they did not move from the place in which they new reside by Tuesday morning next, he would have them again arrested and brought before him.
Amos, slave of
Reuben T. Lacy, was ordered to be whipped for threatening to assault with a stone Valentine Angle, a white man.
