Army scenes on the Chickahominy

Army scenes on the Chickahominy
Harper''s pictorial history of the Civil War. (Chicago : Star Publishing Co. 1866)

Saturday, April 13, 2019

The Pamunkey River. . . 1867 . . . Pirates!



ROBBERY IN THE COUNTY- EXCITING CHASE

A party of white men, consisting of the captain and four of the crew of a schooner from Baltimore, went a shore at Cumberland, on the Pamunkey river, Saturday evening, and breaking into the store of Colonel John C. Timberlake while he was absent, took from the moneytill about sixty dollars in United States currency. They also carried off with them a lot of wearing apparel and other articles valued at $100. They then returned to the schooner and sailed down the stream. The theft was immediately discovered, and a party of citizens, eight or ten in number, procured some small boats and gave chase. The race was a pretty close one, but the pursuing party overtook them about six miles below Cumberland, and boarding the vessel, arrested the whole party. They were lodged in the New Kent jail, and were to have had a hearing before a magistrate on yesterday, and as the evidence is direct and point blank, no doubt exists as to the decision of the court. 

-Daily Dispatch, 9 July 1867

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