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Information about the police in the city of Richmond, Virginia during the Civil War

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1870-12-28, Richmond Dispatch; more details of the Spotswood Hotel fire
1872-02-26, Richmond Dispatch; gambling den at Chimborazo raided by police – 14 negroes and two whites arrested
1875-08-16, fight between R. A. Wallace, superintendent of the Richmond National Cemetery, and another man on 17th street. Both men arrested.
1896-06-30, Richmond Times; account of the Robertson Hospital and Sally Tompkins
1900-11-21, Richmond Times; “tramps” are occupying the old Carrington and Van Lew homes – police are going to “break it up”
1901-04-20, Richmond Times; little boy dies after a fall off the railroad cars at the Tredegar Iron Works
1917-10-07, Richmond Times-Dispatch; boy who fatally beat a co-worker at Tredegar with a wrench is tried at the Juvenile Court rather than the Police Court – to the consternation of the latter’s Judge
1920-10-30, Richmond Times-Dispatch; fire at the blacksmith shop of the Tredegar Iron Works – 2nd fire this month
1923-11-11, Richmond Times-Dispatch; police looking for a body floating in the canal near the Tredegar Iron Works
1944-09-07, Richmond Times Dispatch; Pattern maker found bludgeoned and shot at the Tredegar Iron Works – murderer still at large.

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