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The Daily Dispatch: December 29, 1865., [Electronic resource], Southern Baptist Convention . (search)
A colored Brother in trouble.
--Pleasant Bowler, pastor of the Wesley Methodist Episcopal (negro) Church, on Duval street, was arraigned before Judge McEntee, in the Provost Court, yesterday, on the charge of making an assault upon Robert P. Bolling, also a negro, and threatening to kill him. The reverend brother, on being arraigned, plead not guilty.
The following testimony was adduced, showing it to have been a very rich case:
Robert P. Boiling testified that he knew the prisoner.
Witness was one of the trustees of the church of which the prisoner, P. Bowler, is at present paster.
Witness was present at the fair in the church on Christmas night, and at the suggestion of Daniel Brown, went to the study to get some tickets for him to dispose of at the door.
On making the request of Bowler, he told witness to be off; said he should not trouble him; that he (witness) was not a member of that or any other church; and at the same time took witness by the shoulder and pushe
Sent to the penitentiary.
--Eliza Jenkins, a negro woman, was arraigned before Judge McEntee yesterday, in the Provost Court, on the following charge: That she did, on the night of Friday, December 22, unlawfully steal, take and carry away from the residence of Johnson Sands, in this city, a white dress, a piece of cloth, a gold locket, and seven dollars in United States currency — all valued at the sum of twenty-seven dollars. On being arraigned, the prisoner plead not guilty.
Mr. Sands ccount of her bad character.
She (Eliza) was a noted thief.
After the hearing of some further testimony, which positively proved that she stole the articles in question, Eliza was found guilty of grand larceny and sentenced to be confined in the penitentiary for one year.
This girl is the same who was mentioned in yesterday's paper as having been arrested by Constable Cole, of Henrico.
Justice Wade, finding that the case did not come within his jurisdiction, sent her before Judge McEntee.
Petit larceny.
--John Wyley, a negro, was arraigned before Judge McEntee yesterday on the charge of stealing six chairs, valued at fifteen dollars, from the Monumental Hotel.
On being arraigned, he plead not guilty.
The following testimony was heard in the case:
R. P. Emerson testified that he recognized the prisoner as a man whom he saw in the hotel, of which witness was proprietor, last Saturday night about half-past 7 o'clock. He was in a room which had been fitted up for a billiard saloon.
He immediately pursued him, and stumbled over the chairs which had been taken from the room.
He was finally pursued and arrested.
Mr. Emerson had lost six chairs from this room about a week previously.
The prisoner was found guilty of petty larceny and sentenced to six months imprisonment in Castle Thunder.