From the Richmond Dispatch, 9/2/1864, p.1, c. 7 

The Deserter Shooting Case. – Detective John B. Williams, who shot on Tuesday night last a man named Joseph Foster, charged with being a deserter, underwent a partial examination yesterday before Commissioner Sands; at the conclusion of which he was committed to Castle Thunder to await further developments and the result of the wound inflicted upon the wounded man.

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