The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1859-02-04
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LOCAL MATTDHa.

CAHNosADrNa A BUaGLAs. erd ~
morning, between the hours OF aud 3 O'Clock.
pr Chss. II. Whitiock. fof the firm of II. II. Whit.
lsck Son, lumber merchants, corner of 18th aud
oary stTeefs) was aroused from his slumbers By an
anusual noiss and shortly after bearing the hand.
VI some one upon his office door. jumped up, pro.
.u.sa ais hVe shooter, and determined to ascer.
| H.. ao .ne iatrudsrs wera. On opening the
| uoo'' ne niseoVered two men near the gate and
| suspecting that they were his own .ervsnts and
y .Ia' ,hey mad arisen too early. demanded to know
| Smo they were. As soon as he spoke the two
.sd~s sprang into 18th street, and ran of as fas,
90 'ueir iegs could carry ttem one going toward.
| cary and the other In the direesion ~ Nj
| un.ii reaching the alley between 18th and 1oth
ana ana Main and Cary. which he turned into Mr.
y, "t'aoek followed one of them, crying "watch.n
the top OF his voice, and firing ave times Al tho
| iusitive but without being able 10 bring b;ns
uo~n. Two OF the watehmen hearing the sscallsr
| eame up Ia lew minutes, and on examining the
| pI.mises Oh the Messrs. w, found that the lock
| 70 lhe gate mad been broken Of, aud the gat,
thrown open as If to give the burglars An on,ossn
nifty to escape, il detected. There seems to ls nn
doubt that the robbers Intended to break into the
'hIse, Io ,bor1 with t tns hope Of getting money.
berry, two OF the Watehmen while s.andino al N.
corner Oh Z0th aud Franklin streets saw a negro
fellow named Thomas, slave TO Mr. Slater. walk
| ieisureiy up Franklin to Goth, when he stopped
anu anu gave whistle. They at once arrested him.
and discovered that he was in profuse perspira,
ton, as II he had been at bard work or running
as be had no pass for that hour OF the night he
was taken to the cage, aud yesterday morning ar.
raishea heioTe the Mayor on suspicion of being
one OF the fellows who attempted to break into
the Office OF the Messrs. Whitlock He told a
lame story about bis being in The street go early
and stated that hs had been drunk the night be.
lore. The Mayor had Mr.. Whitlock called, but az
he could not Identity the prisoner and there was
no means ct establishing his guilt, the charge OF
suspicion was dismissed The Mayor however
ordered him 10 be punished for keeping bad hours
anc his owner will probably send him South for
| the correction of his morals
UNGALLANT. Miss Mary Brown, a fair
dansel OF seventeen, appeared before the Mayor
yesterday, on the complaint Of Hamln Guerjnr
20 answer the charge of assaultipg and beating
MS daughter, Mary A. f. Guering, little sirl
ABOUT nine years old. The complainant stated
that being widower, aud supposing Miss Brown
10 be not only virtuous but above suspicion he
engaged her TO take charge of his honse and child
intending to make her Mrs. Gneriug at some fu.
ture day, but hhding that she was not all sftncy
painted her-neither lovely nor divipe-bs dis
missed her from his service after three months
tilai, Whereupon che met his little girl In the
street and nearly knocked her eye out. The little
giri was in court, her eye bandaged and apnarent.
| ~ weak, but on examining it no brpisa cnuil he
discovered Miss Mary, on hearing the evidence
denied most positively that she had ever touched
the little girl She said that the complainant had
| promised to marry her. and had asked her tn sci
| as mother for his child, but as the ceremony had
| not been performed, she declined the responsible
| post OF mother, believing that the complainant
| intended to take undue advantage Of her Sh.
| salu she was poor, without mother or father and
uso ohty gone to Gueriug's a. his earnest soieita
ton, but finding him to be addicted to iptempey.
anee ana gwen to quarre!ing aud fighting at such
times. she had left bis house three times and
sought the protection of friends. Ia order to get
otcer witnesses, and to have the little girls phy>
slc.an examined, the investigation was adj turned
until this morning.