The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1864-07-07

Sen. On fer ErGrusatioa~--Two youths,
amsd Augustus Snsppsrson aud Thadieu; A.
Il h pkins, charged with breaking Tito the
store Of Hsnry N Jones, on 2i street, be-
tween Clay AID Icigh, q few nights s;uce,
aud stealing eevsral thousand dollars worth
of groceries, Il J., were yesterday sent on by
the Mayor 10 ths HuetiGgs Court for exauiaa-
iion The oIisiu;,, charge was against Young
Hopkins aud bis mother, but there beiRg 10
evidence connecting Mrs Ii. with the trans.
&C ION, che WAS promptly acquitted The fol
lowing Is a summary of the testimony
Mr. Jones stated thai for some time back he
had been rob bbsd several times, aud be was at
a loss 10 know what steps te take to preveas
recurrence of the depEedatioIs upon his prop
ertv. His store is In the hoGse cccupied by
Mrs Hopkins, that lady living In the upper
part, aud his residepcs bsiDg in another pert
of the city. 4 fter the second robbery, he
locked and nailed up the eide door 10 his store,
which lad formerly been used as an entrance
through Mrs. Hopkips's p lssage way. About
two weeks since, on opening the store ln the
uorpiug, he found that j, had been robbed,
aud that from this side door the nails had been
drawn and i. ualocked Knowing that the Key
10 Mrs Ii 3 front passage door would Riso uu
lock this side one, be came 10 tie codcidsioh
tas, the parties III tte house were tbs ones
who had robbed him, and he therefore deter
mined TO obtain a warrant against MIS- Hop
kins, her son, aud Augustus Sheppesson SAB
seuueutly however, he concluded not TO ta 10
the latter arrested, because he had told him
tha. Thad Hopkins commiated the .theft, and
got him to help dispose of what he had stolen.
Sher / arson went with him to several stores
| where some Of his goods had been sold, and at
| one of them he fully Identified lot OF gun
caps which were among the a'tielss lost.
James Williams, youth, aboat IL years OF
age, nephew Of Mrs Hopkins, stated that
| sncs the robbery Of Jones store he had been
| told copfdentialiy by SheppsTson thai he tS.l
| had. on one occasion, stole 30 from his aunt,
| without her knowing it that he intended
| breakiny into Spratiey's store, near the New
| Market. ard that there being pitcher and
basin IN Il certain b<srker chop near the market
which he faneied, It was his intention TO break
| into that also and stsai them Sherpefsou
| confessed 10 him at the same tinie that no had
| broken into Jouss's store.
| Mrs. Hopkins testified that Saspparson was
| n bosrder at her house and that her son and
| him had been inssparsble companions Oaca
| or twice willis. hs was boa; ding with her chs
| vent out 10 spend tho day, taking along hsi
| family. Before leaving home she always lock
| ed the house a., and each ticae when shs
| woulH rel urn after night, che found the FROM
| door unlocked, aud ShepPerson ia bed Feel
1 iuy soms curiosity to know how he got IL
| without the key, che inquired OF him about
IL. when hs informed her that he uniocket
the door with a broken key which he had
Mrs Hopkins knew that her son had nsvsl
stealthiiy entered the house Ia her aosence
nor did she believe he had any thing to do viii
the robbery of Jonss's store. About the gun
csps and other articles which Thaddsns, hs