From the Richmond Dispatch, 11/21/1862, p. 1, c. 5

Mayor's Court, Thursday, Nov. 20th. –Walter Philcock and Cadmus C. Cooper were examined for engaging in a personal rencontre at the Exchange Hotel on Wednesday night. The parties protested that they were only engaged in a friendly wrestle, and did not intend to trespass on the rights of the keeper of the Hotel. Nothing appearing to gainsay this, they were discharged.

[remainder of cases were not transcribed]

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