Daily Dispatch, Richmond VA, November 1, 1860.
John, a slave, was arraigned before the Mayor yesterday, on a charge of stealing a piece of calico from his master, Joseph Rosenbaum. As John acknowledged the theft, but little time was occupied in disposing of his case, and he was sentenced to thirty lashes. The calico was left with Mary Cooper, a free negro woman, living in the basement of Ann Stevenson’s house, in “Solitude,” and she was punished for receiving the stolen goods. Virginia Turner and Harriet Hellum, two white women boarding with Ann Stevenson, were also up on the charge of receiving the calico, but the evidence being insufficient, they were set at liberty.