Named Entity Results, Edward Gentry

Miscellaneous cases. --The law requires the closing of bar-rooms at 10 o'clock at night, but in some cases individual preferences condemn the practice. It was thus with Edward Gentry and John Griffiths, who became thirsty on Saturday might at a late hour, and made a demonstration upon the bar-room of Wm. Heuser, near the theatre, breaking one of the windows thereof. The Recorder deemed the offence a misdemeanor, and held the parties to answer an indictment. D. M. Allen, Wm. Jones, Patrick Lynch Charles P. Backler, Alexander Killroy, and Levit Riley, supposed to be soldiers, were arraigned before the Recorder yesterday for drinking more liquor than the law allows, and were severally turned over to the custody of army officers. Larkin Curtis a discharged soldier, was up for a similar offence, and dismissed on condition of his leaving town forthwith. John T. Hughes, charged with beating his wife, was committed in default of security for his appearance before the Grand

Sent to Camp Lee. --A man named Edward Gentry, who is charged with having for some time back been resorting to all sorts of tricks to evade military service, was on Tuesday carried before Capt William Charters, Provost Marshal for the State Reserves, who, upon investigation of the matter, promptly turned him over to Capt Coke as a proper person to join the army. Gentry was at one time sentenced by the Mayor to receive thirty-nine lashes (he being looked upon as a negro) for using insultiGentry was at one time sentenced by the Mayor to receive thirty-nine lashes (he being looked upon as a negro) for using insulting language towards Dr. James Conway, but took an appeal from His Honor's decision to the Hustings Court, and that body overruled the decision, there being evidence before them which proved that he was a white man. From that time till the inauguration of the war Gentry has been looked upon as a white man, and would probably have continued so to be considered had he not, to serve his own purposes, otherwise reported himself. It is reliably stated that when called upon recently to enter the Confe

Prison Items. --At the upper station house yesterday a tree negro boy named Edward Gentry, was committed on the charge of stealing a chicken from Mrs. Polly Perrin, in the Second Market, on Saturday morning last. The other prisons presented a clear record, so far as matters which would interest the public are concerned.

n search was an hour afterwards made for Andrew at his house he was not there, which fact went far to confirm the suspicion that he was the thief. Thomas Wilder, a Petersburg negro, was charged with buying unions in the Second Market to sell again. He was ordered to be taken to Major Carrington, Provost Marshal, with the request to send him back to the place from which he came. The charge against a little white boy named Clay Rawlings, of stealing, on the 8th of July, in the First Market, a pocked book containing $45 from Mary E. Trainum, was dismissed upon the promise of his mother to give him a good whipping. A fine of twenty dollars was imposed upon B. T. C. Robins for allowing his servant Lucy to go at large. A free negro named Edward Gentry, charged with stealing a chicken from Mrs. Polly Perrin on Saturday last, was ordered to be whipped. The same punishment was inflicted upon William, slave of General Chilton, charged with throwing stones in the streets.