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Mrs. Flutina Myers was bound over to keep the peace in the sum of $100 for assaulting and beating with a broomstick Henrietta Nockman, a girl of fourteen. Benjamin H. Phillips, charged with obtaining money under false pretences from Michael Smith, was remanded to the custody of the military authorities, there being no person present to make a charge against him, and no evidence of any sort to authorize the Mayor to take cognizance of the case. There was a written statement of Smith'smin H. Phillips, charged with obtaining money under false pretences from Michael Smith, was remanded to the custody of the military authorities, there being no person present to make a charge against him, and no evidence of any sort to authorize the Mayor to take cognizance of the case. There was a written statement of Smith's that the prisoner had undertaken to carry him to the Yankee lines, and after receiving his money as pay for the job had left him at a house on Mechanicsville turnpike.
yesterday from Castle Thunder to answer the charge of obtaining money from Michael Smith under fasle pretences. It appeared from the evidence that Smith's British Smith's British papers being taken from him to be examined by the Conscript Bureau, about the20th of last March, he determined, if possible, to run the blockade and join his family,ecommended him to entrust himself to Phillips, and introduced him to Phillips. Smith paid Phillips $30 in greenbacks and $200 in Confederate money to take him acrosim on some pretence, returned to the city, bringing his trunk and his clothes. Smith also returned to the city, and found Phillips and Williams together in a bar-rois money and clothing were returned to him. On the day after this Williams told Smith he would take him down the York River road, and that he would there get across , Williams was tried by Court-Martial and dismissed from the detective police. Smith has never recovered the money paid by him to Phillips nor any of the clothing t
The Daily Dispatch: April 20, 1864., [Electronic resource], The Retirement of the enemy from the Blackwater region. (search)
The case of Mr. Smith --Some days ago Benjamin H. Philips and Benjamin B. Williams were examined before the Mayor on the charge of obtaining $30 in greenbacks and $200 in Confederate money from Michael Smith under false pretences, when it was testified by Smith that Phillips, under promise of putting him across the lines, witMichael Smith under false pretences, when it was testified by Smith that Phillips, under promise of putting him across the lines, with the knowledge and by the advice of Williams, took him out on the Mechanicville pike, four miles from Richmond, and there left him to shift for himself; and that after wards Williams took him down on the York River Road and turned him loose, when he was arrested and brought back to Richmond, Phillips having and still retaining hisSmith that Phillips, under promise of putting him across the lines, with the knowledge and by the advice of Williams, took him out on the Mechanicville pike, four miles from Richmond, and there left him to shift for himself; and that after wards Williams took him down on the York River Road and turned him loose, when he was arrested and brought back to Richmond, Phillips having and still retaining his money, and also his valise of clothing. Pursuant to adjournment, the case was brought up before the Mayor yesterday, when that officer decided that the larceny, if any, having been committed four miles from the city, he had no jurisdiction in the case and sent the parties to a Hanover county Justice for examination. They were ex
coin, one gold watch, one pair of gold earrings, one gold finger ring, and a large quantity of wearing apparel, was sent on for examination before the Hustings Court. The evidence in this case has already been published, and it is, therefore, unnecessary to repeat it. Robert Oden, member of the Fifth South Carolina cavalry, charged with drunkenness and indecency in the street, was sent to the Provost Marshal. Oden, who is rather a genteel looking man, seemed partially sobered while in Court yesterday morning, though his general appearance indicated that he had been on a wholesale bender. Michael Smith, a one-legged individual, was rined for shooting a gun within the corporate limits about 8 o'clock Wednesday night. Mike paid his fine, but protested that he did not know it was any violation of law to hunt game in the streets. Edward D. Eacho was charged with permitting his servant woman Maria to go at large; but owing to his necessary absence, the case was postponed.