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Monday, July 14, 2014

When No Self Respecting City Had One Paper . . .

 The difference in reading the Richmond Daily Dispatch and the Richmond Daily Examiner . . .

Mayor's Court.
Mrs. Flutina Myers was bound over to keep the peace in the sum of $100 for assaulting and beating with a broomstick Henrietta Nockman, a girl of fourteen.


-The Daily Dispatch, April 14, 1864.




MAYOR'S COURT-
Wednesday, April 13, 1864.
. . .
Mrs. Myers, the Jewess, previously mentioned in this column, who looks as if she had been blown up in the laboratory explosion, was charged with beating a girl of fourteen, named Henrietta Nockman. The girl stated that, Mrs. Myers being in the act of beating a negro in the streeet, she was looking on, when Mrs. Myers, getting through with the negro, made a dash at her, the witness, and chased her through Mrs. Simons's house with a stick, and beat her over the head and otherwise.
Officer Granger stated that Mrs. Myers was very vicious.
Mrs. Myers was bound over to keep the peace.

-The Daily Examiner, April 14, 1864

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