The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1875-08-12
LOCAL MATTERS.

TIE PIG-IRoN CAsE-THREE OF TIE Ac.
CUsED SENT ON TO THE GRAND jury Ben.
Cooper, Isaiah @TurBer, Andrew Poipdexter,
Frank Myers alias johnson, and Heury Petit
(aH colored), charged with stealing pig-iron,
the property Of Messrs. W. E. Tanner & Co.,
were brought before the Police Court and
fully examined yesterday morning. The
iron, a lot Of ten tons branded "No. g" and
manufactured by the Powhatan Iron Com
pany. when 1t arrived here was taken from a
boat and laid on the basin bank in charge OF
Isaiah Turner until Il could be removed
to the foundry. Isaiah proved unfaith-
ful to his trust. He hid lot on Coop
er's boat and sent William Freeman
alias Smith, a venerable sinner, eff with
two or three bags of 1t (broken up) to be sold
to junk dealer. When carrying off bis last
bag full, Smith saw policeman ut dis
tance, and fearing that the officer would ar
| rest him, dropped the iron on the canal bank.
This small lot Frank johnson alias Myers,
who had seen Freeman put it down, took
I'D and carried to Mr.. A. y. Tinsley's
| junk-shop, where, according to his own and
Mr. Tinsey's account, he left it to be kept
until the owner could be found. Johnson's
honest purpose in the transaction did not ap'
pear conclusive to the Police Justice. The
taithless Isaiah was sent to Jail for twelve
mouths; johnson was sentenced to six months
in Jail; Freeman was sent on under the new
act Of Assembly to answer before the grand
jury for receiving the pig-iron from party
Unauthorized to dispose of it, and Ben. Coop.
er and Andrew PoindeXter were honorabiy
acquitted. Counsel for johnson, not satisfied
with his sentence, appealed the case to the
Hastings Court for trial by jury.
charged with receiving the iron. or portions
of it, in violation of the act Of March, 1875,
heretofore alluded to, which provides " that
any person receiving or buying pig.iron or
railroad iron of any description from any one
except the manufacturers, their authorized
agents, or regular licensed dealers in the
same, unless the seller furnish true and sni-
ficient evidence OF righuul possession, shall
be guilty of felony on conviction thereof,
and shall be confined in the penitentlary not
less than one nor more than two years"
The iron found in Mr.. Tinsley's posses
sion (sOmc six or seven hundred pounds),
and supposed to belong to Me>srs. ". 4.
Tanner d Co., was OF the estimated value Of
$40, including the small lot left there by
johnson. The Identification was not abso-
Int. but Mr. Jones, OF the Powbatan Iron
Company, said he was as positive that 1t was
Messrs. Tanner e. Co.'s iron as he could be
of any iron upon which he bad not constant
ly kept his eye. All of the pigs bad been
broken up, but the pieces were not con-
cealed.
The Police Justice sent Mr.. Tusley on to
answer before the grand jury at the Septem-
ber term. His counsel. Messrs. George D.
Wise and S. Nj. Page, asked that he be admit
ted to bail.
Mr.. Cabell declared that, in his opinion,
this was not baiable case.
The Police Justice declined to admit MIR.
Tinsley to bail, and be was at once committed
to Jail.
But his counsel lost no time in getting
writ Of habeas corpus from Judge Minor, of
Henrico before whom Mr.. Tinsley was car
ried without loss OF time, and bail was al
lowed him in the sum of $4,000, With Nj.
WiMam Ragland as surety.