Lynchburg Virginian. [volume] (Lynchburg [Va.]) 1829-185?, 1835-08-10
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The IH,gfd Fpgitrc Slarc-rhe Recorder
held another examination of thiS case Yesterday,
when evidence OF such description was brough,
forward, Il, 10 leave no doubt but that the claim
ant, Mi Hope, OF lrginia, has been mistaken as
To the IDENTITY ot the colourcd man Griffin whom
he claimed a, his slave. Mr. Hope fixed positive
" ON the month OF July, 1928, rs being the time
when tie slave fled from, him. \ GOOD deal of
oral and crcumStantial evidence was produced ON
the part ol Griffin 10 show that he was residing in
TIN, city prior to Joly, 1928 but the most conclu-
Nl,c evidence ON the subject was that Of Mr..
Robinson of this CITY, and his two daughters about
fourteen aud eighteen years of ace. They both
stated that they rccocctcd Griffin having several
years since, during winter, the date of wlicl, they
did not remember, pulled ciclrS for them from a
shed IN the yard of the house which they then lived
IN, at the corner OF Broomc and Allen streets
The itthcr OF the young ladies' then proved hv a
decd OF the present DWELLING that he had left the
house alluded to by his daughters in February
1923, and consequently il must have been the win
ter before, that they saw Griffin there besides
which there neither is nor has been any shed in
the yard OF Rubinson'S present house. SO that his
danghtcrs could not be mistaken. Aitrs the Young
ladies' gave evidence as to the date OF time when
/ they knew Griffin, they were then conducted into
aroom where he and two other men of colour
were standing. and were requested to point
him out, which they did mStanrancou>y The
Recorder then sad he Was perfectly satisfied
that the claimant was mistaken and that he
should lbcratc Griffin TODAY The Recorder
would have set him at liberty this day, but
the counsel for the claimant demanded 10 be
heard before die Recorder pronounced judgement
IN the case. This the Recorder considered the
counsel had It right to claim, and consented to hear
hun tomorrow morning; but at the same time re-
marked that no arguments could di>provc facts,
and that he would certainly Hbcrate Griffin TODAY
Iour Of Com.
SLAVE Tn>pr.-Wc mentioned some weeks
back that Captain Caleb Miller a native, we be-
evc, of New Bedford, was arrested in this city and
held TO ball. for having brought two colorod chill
drcn here from the coast of Africa. Transactions
afterwards came To the knowledge of the United
States District Attorney in consequence of which
he caused Miller 10 be arrested at Boston under a
charge OF having hccn practically engaged in the
slave trade the coa>, of Africa M,licr was YES
terday arraigncd under two Indictments ono charg-
me linn with mlsdCmcanor and the other with
felony. The circumstances which from the mat
ter Of accusation against him are nearly the same
IN the two indictments, the substance of which,
Invested OF the technical phraScooey. is. that Mil
Ter had on the FIRST of April last taken ON board the
brig America, al Old Bengucla, ON the coast of
Africa, twenty negroes who had been torcihv sez-
ed ON the SAID coast, the LIST of April proceed
ing for III" purpose of making them slaves, and
that he delivered the said twenty NEGROES to GER
tain schooner at Loango. The indictment also
/ charged him with treating nfhe same way a necroe
named Joaquma. Millcr's trial was called on this
morning, but put off until to-day at the instance
OF MS counsel, on the ground that an important
witness vas absent, Without whose testimony the
prisoner r''Iii MT safely snto trisl The Disnict