From the Richmond Dispatch, 12/2/1862, p. 1, c. 4

Cage Cases. - Sidney Robinson, slave of Miss Hartley Graham, was arrested yesterday for causing the death, in December, 1861, of Bob Napper, slave of Mrs. Sarah Waddell, by inflicting on his person divers stabs and cuts; James A. Minor, by officers Kelly and Griffin, for committing a forgery; Thomas W. P. Goodman, for stealing a horse from Horatio H. Hobson; and Emanuel Olliberg, for exposing his person in the street. Patrick Connally, hearing of a charge made against him for assaulting Patrick Disney and Patrick Gilmore, came to the cage and surrendered himself.

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