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The Daily Dispatch: may 17, 1861., [Electronic resource] 2 0 Browse Search
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The Daily Dispatch: may 17, 1861., [Electronic resource], article 1 (search)
Case for consideration. --Six months ago a fellow calling himself Edward Moore was convicted before the Hustings Court and sentenced to six months imprisonment in the city jail, for attempting to pick Col. John Dickinson's pocket on the cars. After the fellow had been in jail several months, a requisition was received from Wm.F. Packer, then acting as the Governor of the State of Pennsylvania, claiming the prisoner, under the name of Edward Livingston, as a fugitive from justice, he having committed a petty larceny in Berks county, in that State. The man's term of imprisonment expires on the 18th. Since he has been in jail the political status of the country has been changed. Virginia is now a foreign country, so far as Pennsylvania is concerned. Whether the man shall be given up or not, in the absence of a treaty on that subject between the custodians of his person, is a matter of discretion with Gov. Letcher. He may or may not be given up. Being under duress he could be