The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1864-08-01
LOCAL MATTERS.

Charqed 1oi h EsIoni0assly Obta.niag Honey.
Some two weeks since. a man named John
Head keeper of livery stable in this city,
was committed to Castle Thunder on the
charge Of felOniousiy obtaining money from
persons whom he had engaged To take
across the lines. Upon representation OF
the fscts before General Gardner that ofiicer
considered the matter aa offence against the
laws of the Common wealth, and therefore
referred it to the Mayor, who on Saturday
last had Head brought before him for
hearing, when the following testimony was
ELECTED
Mrs Lima Castleberger, upon whose com.
plant the prisoner Was arrested, testiheu
tEat about the l4th of July, 1864, herself
az d observation-disclosures, +. Mari ch, M. Su-
init, and Kunigade Deqeuhardt, made an
Arrangement with Head to lake them across
the Potomac for 80 coo, one half to be paid
in advance, the other at the end OF the jour
uey. On going with him to the office to
procure passi orts, he was refused one Tor
himself, but afterwards found man ramed
Wilson, q horse doctor, who succeeded In
| obtaining one, aud who was to take them
| in 3 place. The first pay ment OF the mo.
| ncy was then made, and the parties separa-
| ted TO make their arrangements for an early
| start he 1t morning. When morning came,
| two negroes drove up to the place appointed
| to take them and their baggage but instead
l
| had sent two negroes and q white man
/ named George Brown to dive the wagons,
| whereupon they objected to going. as they
| had previously had positive instructions
from Can't. Thomas w. boswell, Assistant
| Provost Marshal, that only those could sue
coed in passing our piekets who were speci.
aliy specified in the passport Previous to
| urging their objection to going without the
prisoner or Wilson, Head demanded the
| pa,nent of the other half Of the three thou
sand dollars, aud upon their resusal To pay II
over he would neither agree to take them OF
return the money which had already beer
| paid down. IL was in consequence vi these
iac,s that the witness Mrs Cas- tleberger
laid her complaints before the Confederate
authorities.
| Captain Doswell stated that Head could
not obtain a passport, but that he after-
wards brought to his Office one Dr. wilson
horse doctor, who proAuced recommea'
dations from parties emitting him TO re-
spectability, q nd upon which he was per
mitted to have a passport 1t was fully
understood by Head that unless Wilson
accompanied the ladies who were going
Il North, as driver, the passport was insufn
cient to pass them through, and he also
knew that no other persons could accom-
pany them with Out their names were inciu-
ded in the same passport that the otners
| were on Captain boswell stated that al
passports of this character had to be re-
turned to the Office to be cancelled, in ordel
to prevent their being used more than once
and it was therefore that the names OF par
ticuiar parties, going by one conveyance
were obliged to be embraced in one andah'
same paper. Upon hearing the Statement
of the ladies who had INTENDED going, n
endorsed the course which they had pur
sued in their refusal TO be driven by out
siders. ard accordingly felt it his duty u
| send Head to Castle Thunder.
The defence contended that the Only rea-
son why the parties in question did not 81
in the wagons which called for them wa
because they were unwilling to pay th'
| whole amount in advance, aad Head woult
| not agree tha. they should be taken withou
they would do SO. One of the wagons the.
! claimed belonged to man named Iay lor
, who lived in the neighborhood OF the 70
tomac, and lie had u passport emitting hin
! to 90 home. In order to procure the at
| tendance of this man, the Mayor adJourne'
: the matter till next Saturday, and in Tia
meantime admitted the prisoner to ball to
| his appearance.