Wilmington expositor. (Wilmington, Del.) 1831-18??, 1832-03-30

a carriage was going to the west And the
Jury reported that the reason assigned bv Allen
for hisrefusal. was, that the answers might tend
to implicate himself. An elaborate argument
was made before the court by the special attor-
ney, and by the counsel for Allen, who was the
same counsel that has appeared in behalf of the
persons indicted. on almost every OCCASION
The court decided thar the witness was bound
to answer the questions, but he persisted in his
refusal, and was committed to prison. The
purpose of making an example of a contuma-
cious witness, having been thus accomplished
he was discharged after few days. with the
consent ofthe prosecuting officers This grand
Hurry found an indictment against Simeon B..
levitt, an attorney at law. and Burrage Smith
for the conspiracy and kidnapping. They had
been previously indicted in Ontario, but the
overt acts charged against them having been
committed in monroe, as alledged, it became
expedient to indict them in that county, Blu
rage Smith had previously gone out of the state
with Ion Whitney. TO the southwestern states.
Messrs phineas p, Bates and Joseph CARING
house-the, one of them then sheriff, and the
other the former sheriff of Ontario-went in
pursuit of them, ando of William King, who had
gone to Arkansas leaving his family in Mag
ara. They were clothed with authority from
the governor Of New York to demand the flu
gitives and bring them to that state. The his
tory of their expedition has been published by
those gentleman under the sanction of their
names; and it discloses the fact that the same
cause operated to defeat their purpose, and
Successfully bafled their enterprise. which has
been found invariably ohstructipg the march of
Justice through all the proceedings connected
with this whole transaction. Twice did they
pursue the fugitives into the remotest corners
Of the Union. and in each instance they failed.
They have usreservedlvgiv the facts, which
Justify the belief that their failure was owing
to the interference of masons in communicating
intelligence to the persons FOR whom they were
lin search After penetrating to the western
boundaries of Missouri. and traversing the
country to New Orleans, these gentlemen re.
turned with solemn conviction that, if they
had succeeded in arresting any OF the fuGtives,
they would have been utterly unable to return
with them to the state of New York: and that
their prisoners would have been taken from
them, either by the perversion and abuse ollie
cal forms and process, or by open violence
Il should he remarked. that one of these gen.
lenen was roval arch mason, and that what
he Witnessed during these iournies, so entirely
satisfied him of the dangerous nature OF the IN
stitution, and its adoption to the commission
all connection with it, and has united his voice
and his efforts with the great multitude of his
fellow citizens in that quarter, to exterminate
liz from the soil of America. Bnrragc Smith
| lied in New Orleans some time after the pur-
suit FOR him. William King returned to his
family in Niagara. and published clustering
notice to Messrs. Bates and Clearinghouse o.
his having ccmc back to stand his trial. I'm
mediate measures were taken for his arrest
and he was put under heavy. bonds. The mex
lav, after hearing that Bruce had testified te
the fact. that Kings accompanied him IN the car
| riare which contained Morgan, and had eros
sed the Niagara river with him, Col King sud
denly died. as was said, in an apopletlc lit
i Jobn whitney also returned at his leisure, ant
afterwards tried,
i "At the FEBRUARY Sessions Of Ontario coun
Nv. in 1899, an attachment was issued agains
i LYMAN Aldriclr for not appearing as a witnes
,iupon the Indictment against ellis and Whit
I. ney, pursuant to subpoena; and his recogni
) zance, entered into for that purpose, was for
: feited. He was arrested and committed t
prison and by that means his attendance at tn
, ensuing court was secured. Attachments wer
= also issued against Nichols e. Cheshire, Ed
: ward SAWYER. and Thomas NJ Boughton, VIII
i had been subpoena as witness on the same II
: indictment.
: "In MAY, 1929. inquiries were renewed b
the special attorney before the grand jury
S Niagara county. A multitude of witness,
d were examined. and. although many importa
e collateral facts We're elected, yet the greatpo
$ the murder Of William Morgan-could NJ
l. be legally established. AT this time, an ire
e ularity was discovered which might prove fat
'e to the indictments found in that county, and ne
o bills were prepared and found against the pc
g sons who had already been indicted.
Ct "Previous to this time. efforts were made
lie procure the attendance of Ezra Plat as wi
Is ness. This was the individual who had hire
is his carriage to person he did not know. whi'
m had been employed in the transportation,
s; Morgan, and for the hire of which he had cha
r. ged royal arch chapter. He had removed
lie the city of Albany, where he was publicly Ell
n ployed in a stage-office. His previous co