The Daily Dispatch: November 26, 1863., [Electronic resource]

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Burglary

--At an early hour yesterday morning a party of negroes effected an entrance into the barroom of the Powhatan House, and stole therefrom a barrel of rye whiskey from George J. Scammell, worth $2,000. The burglars effected an entrance by getting into the coal-house of the hotel, and then cutting out a panel of a rear door leading into the bar-room. They then opened the front door, relied the barreled own to 12th street, thence down Governor to Ross street, and thence to Mr. Wm. H. Herbert's stable, near the Clifton House, where Messrs. Pleasants, Cousins, and Moore, of the police, discovered it in the second story, concealed under a lot of hay. The officers, after getting the stolen property, arrested six negroes, found in the stable, and took them before the Mayor, where they had a partial hearing One of the prisoners implicated afelbow named Ned, none of the others seeming to be concerned. To get at the guilty parties the investigation was adjourned until to day.