The Norfolk post. [volume] (Norfolk, Va.) 1865-1866, 1865-11-22
LOCAL INTELLIGENCE.
The COURTS.


HAYNES, THE DETECTED. w. III.
Haynes, now confined in the city Jail,
who Is charged with extortion, arrived
here from Richmond on the 9Th of Oc-
tober, bearing letter from one of the
subordinates in the office of Colonel
Ordway, Provost General of this Mill
tary Departmental report to Captain
Gilmore, the Provost Marshal of this
post, for detective duty. Capt. Gilmore
being absent Haynes presented his
papers to General Mann, and made a
requisition at once for horse. General
Mann declined to sign any requsition
for a horse, for the reason that he, Gen.
Mann, had received no orders from mill
tary headquarters defining the status of
Haynes, or the duty to be performed;
and that Haynes had 10 business here,
even under the orders he presented
Captain Gilmore returned i'll u day
or two, and Brigadier General Manu.
rather suspicious of Haynes-directed
the captain to carry out the orders and
be cautious with Haynes, until some
thing more definite was heard from
Richmond. In the mean time, Captain
:. Gilmore received orders from Colonel
Ordway, in Richmond, to furnish
Haynes with horse and rations that
he had been detailed and Assigned to
this post as Chief Detective. Under
these Instructions, Captain Gilmore
furnished Haynes horse, and detailed
him as detective in his office. Haynes
stopped in Captain GilmOre's office
several days at Headquarters. At
length, upon the subterluge, that his
peculiar business required more secresy
and retirement, removed his quarters to
a private room in the Custom House
Under instructions from Col. Ordway,
he was also furnished the assistanceO of
any soldier he might select, or desire.
E. j. Everett, of the 39th Illinois
was detailed, and ordered to report
to Haynes for special service. Haynes
organized ia court' at the Custom
House, and took upon himself all the
dignity and consequence of supreme au-
thOrity issuing mandates and bringing
men before his tribunal. Some he fined
in sums from $40 to $50; others he adj
monished and released. All these fines
were imposed upon the ground that the
revenue law had been violated, and such
other offences, Imaginary and real, as
"the court,p which knew herself seen
proper to impose. On Friday last, W.
e. Forman, a junk and old iron dealer
doing business i'm Portsmouth, was ar
rested by Captain Haynes (self promo
tom order, charged with buying old
iron. From the clumsy manner in
which this affair was worked, and the
court coming down from $500 to $50, it
was evident to Forman that it was %
put up job Forman states that he
was arragned for trial before Haynes
court, and that Haynes directed
his subordinates to inform Fornan
that he could have his choice,
either to pay fine of 5000, or have his
store closed, be sent to Richmond and
tried before military commission about
the last of November. Forman com
promised with the court and paid $3.50
cash, and was then released. Forman,
however, reported the case to Captain
Dudley, QuarterE,aster i'm Portsmouth
Captain Dudley at once came to the Dis
trict Headquarters and reported the facts
to Lieutenant Doud, A. A. A. g., where
upon the Adjutant immediately sent
lieutenant witha guard to arrest Haynes.
In the meantime, the Mayor of Ports
mouth getting wind of the affair, fore
stalled the military authorities, and lad
Haynes arrested The lieutenant which
had orders to arrest Haynes, called
on Mayor Collins, with his orders,
dIlu ueilluuuCu TIE man III tnt
name of the military authorities. Col
Inns endorsed the order to deliver over
the prisoner. The lieutenant, with
his guard, started towards the Jail for
the prisoner, and upon his way met
officer Mathews, Portsmouth police
man, with Hayne in custody. The
lieutenant showed his orders, and
Mathews refused to give the reputed
detective up upon the Mayors endorse
ment, a4it was not in form, being writ
ten with a lead pencil. After considera-
BILE skirmishng between the civil and
military officers, Haynes was turned
over to the military guard. The case
has had preliminary examination
before General Mann, but as it is evident |
several others are implicated in it, fur
Their developments are withheld. In
structions are to be awarded as to |
whether he will be turned over to the |
civil authorities, to be tried on a charge !
of extortion and swindling.
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