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The Daily Dispatch: May 14, 1861., [Electronic resource] 2 0 Browse Search
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The Daily Dispatch: May 14, 1861., [Electronic resource], The War Movements. (search)
l business on yesterday, the Stay Law having cut off all of a civil kind for the present. The case of John T. Ferneyhough, charged with stabbing Hugh Kelley and George McCarrall, on the 25th day of December, 1859, was continued till the next term, the defendant having forfeited the recognizance by not appearing when solemnly called. The Grand Jury met at 11 o'clock, and found true bills against Caroline Cates, Caroline Carr, Elizabeth Beatty, Eliza Ann Johnson, David H. Hughes, John Delworth, and Richard Morris, alias Johnson, for misdemeanors. The Grand Jury then adjourned till this morning at 12 o'clock, when witnesses will be prompt in attendance. A German, by the name of Julius Saeft was examined for stabbing Philip Lange and August Wittsorf, and discharged, it being proven to the satisfaction of the Court that the prisoner acted in self-defence. A fine of ten dollars and the costs of prosecution was imposed on Mrs. Eliza Van-Lew, for permitting her slave to g
The Daily Dispatch: may 17, 1861., [Electronic resource], article 1 (search)
reet. Eliza Ann Johnson, free negro, was tried for remaining in the Commonwealth contrary to law. The jury found her not guilty. Frederick Thompson and Wm. Freeman, confined in jail awaiting the action of the Grand Jury, not having been indicted, were ordered to be discharged. An attachment was awarded against Lawrence S. Marye, to show cause why he should not be fined for his contempt in not attending as a witness in the case of the State against James Edward Carter. John Delworth was tried for an assault on Solomon Hecht, and the jury not agreeing on a verdict, were discharged, and defendant let off on payment of costs. A nolle prosequi was entered in two cases pending against Albert L. Riddle for passing counterfeit notes, he having escaped from jail last February. The appeal of Wm. Scott, a free person of color, from the judgment of the Recorder, ordering him 39 lashes for indecent and insulting language to a white person, was heard by the Court, and