From the Richmond Examiner, 12/13/1865, p. 3, c. 3

PROVOST COURT – Judge McEntee, presiding. - …J. Sullivan, Twelfth United States Infantry, was charged with being drunk and disorderly, and without a pass, and was sent to Castle Thunder for ten days.

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William Robinson (coloured) was accused of breaking into Castle Godwin, with intent to commit grand larceny.

C. S. McMurray testified that he recognized the prisoner, and that he arrested him on Monday morning, under the following circumstances: That he (McMurray) had a quantity of tobacco stored in Castle Godwin, and when he went there yesterday morning, he found the prisoner and two white boys in the kitchen attached to the building. They were just breaking open eight boxes of tobacco. The door leading to the storehouse had been broken open, and sixty-eight boxes of tobacco taken out. The two white boys were known to him as notorious thieves. William Mickins (coloured) deposed that he was with the prisoner on Monday, and followed him to Mr. McMurray’s storehouse. There were two boys in the kitchen. They had a quantity of tobacco, which they offered to sell to Mickins for one dollar. It appears that Mickins had no money, having, according to his own artless statement, given all that he had to his dear aunt, to buy him something to eat and wear.

Mr. McMurray, on being recalled, testified to having seen the boy Mickins in the storehouse, and that he attempted to escape, whereupon he (McMurray) threatened to knock him (Mickins) on the head, if he did not desist.

Robinson was sentenced to imprisonment in the Penitentiary, with hard labour, for ten years.

The boy, Mickins, was found guilty of being in possession of stolen property, knowing the same to be stolen. He was intelligent beyond his age; but, on account of his extreme youth, being only ten years old, he was released. Moral – “Go it, while you’re young.”

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