George S. Cockrell by his next friend Thomas Cockrell, Plaintiff against John McCurdy, DefendantIn Trespass, Assault and Battery This day came the parties by their attornies and thereupon come a Jury to wit, Francis Yates, Joseph […]
The Grand Jury after some time returned into Court and made the following Presentments: Virginia: Seventh District.– Thirteenth Circuit, Jefferson County Superior Court of Law and Chancery, to wit: The Jurors for the Commonwealth of Virginia, […]
The Same [The Commonwealth], PlaintiffagainstJohn McDaniel alias Jackson McDaniel, Defendant This day came as will the attorney for the Commonwealth as the Defendant by his attorney pleaded not guilty in which plea the attorney for the […]
William A Roderick (by his next friend Abraham Roderick), plaintiff against James P. Quinn, defendantIn Tresspass, Assault, and Battery Their attornies and the defendant by his attorney pleaded not guilty and sen. assault, in which pleas […]
William E. Anderson by his next friendJohnathan M. Andersonplaintiff against Patrick O’ByrnedefendantIn Tresspass, assault, and Battery This day come the parties by their attorneys, and the defendant by his attorney plead Not Guilty, to which plea […]
Two bootleggers, Monroe Peyton, colored, of Bakerton, and Moses Welsh, white, of Charles Town, were convicted in the Federal Court at Elkins and sentenced to 60 days in the Martinsburg jail and to pay a fine […]
Curtis Parrott, the young negro previously found guilty of concealing a quantity of brass and copper stolen from the Washington Building Lime Company was sentenced to four months in jail and to pay the cost of […]
Shocking Outrage.– We learn that a most outrageous murder was committed last night on the Washington Rail-Road, 8th section, about 18 miles from Baltimore. It appears that a dispute arose between some of the workmen and […]
DISTRESSING SUICIDE.– The Spirit of Jefferson states that Mr. John P. Kennedy, a citizen of Harper’s Ferry, took his life on Thursday night last by taking laudanum. He was about 38 years of age, and leaves […]
A Case of Poisoning.– We learn that the family of Mr. Francis Wentzel, of Harpers Ferry, Va. were poisoned during the last week, which has already caused the death of two of his children, and two […]
RAILROAD ACCIDENT.– We regret to state that about five o’clock yesterday morning, while a burden engine, without any lading attached, was passing over the railroad bridge at Harper’s ferry, one of the spans of the bridge […]
ARREST FOR FORGERY.– The Charlestown (Va) Free Press says:– “On Saturday last, an individual named Leonard Kinsly or Kingsly, who had been for some weeks boarding in a retired situation at Harper’s Ferry, was arrested on […]
MAD SUICIDE.– On Thursday, a poor fellow, while laboring under mania a potu, was killed on the railroad near Harper’s Ferry, Maryland. The engineer observed him run from a house and take his stand near the […]
From the Harper’s Ferry Free Press.On Thursday last, a man named John Markley was arrested in this neighborhood on suspicion of being the murderer of Miss Evelina Cunningham, near Baltimore, and of having assisted in the […]
From the Baltimore Patriot, May, 9.Fire at Harper’s Ferry.– We have been favoured with the following extract of a letter dated Harper’s Ferry, May 8, 1824: “A dreadful calamity happened at this place this morning before […]
Fires. The workshop and machinery of the United States Armory, at Harper’s Ferry, were entirely consumed by fire on the morning of the 8th inst. Two hundred workmen were employed at this place, and their loss […]
The Commonwealth against Redman Burke — an indictment for selling merchandize without license. This day came as well the attorney for the Commonwealth as the defendant by his attorney and thereupon came a jury to wit, […]
