The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1852-01-12
NEWS BY THE MAILS
Our baltimore Correspondence.


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Tie eYa niIs.iop IN the case II Thomas Nc gsesry,
charged With kidnapping free ceiored woman, rsned
Rachel Parker from Chester county, Pa and bringing
her 70 Baltimore resumed this morning before JUS
tee Pennington and every step to be involved
IN deeper mystery There s evidently siher rglisr
mistake on one side or the other else great 1any
Of very hard swesIing
In my previous lett ere have given yon sunua-yo al
the testimony for the prosecution in which abo,.
dozen most respectable q various demon nstions
from West Nottingham, Chester county Pa have avon
that the gr is named Rachel Parker that they have
known her, and her almost daily for II yes-.
past, since she was infant and hat she BID teen
living for six years past in the family Of Nr Miller rtera
she when she seized by Nc reary and bic aghy
70 Baltimore; that they had known her father and
mothor before che was born and chat her mctner Re
becca Parker is living in the vicinity Mrs Martin
the lady to whom the slave girl If Mr. Schooed rad
been hired for the three preceding her flight also
testified that the girl under arrest bears uan.s
10 the fugitive, Eliza Crocus
The testimony fer the defence opened this Morn
ing the hrst witness sx smined being william H. s,hoo-
field boy sixteen years Of age the Of the claimant
He testified that ne knew and remembered the girl WELL
and tina. on Sunday lsst, he went to the jail with his
in the with the alleged fugitive ne Immediately
picked her out from among them. lie further stated
that Uesu netcripeu to MN either N uref6
or person previous 20 going 70 the Jail had be heard
any conversation a. 70 her appearance that he recog-
nized her solely fro bis remembrance of her form and
features, and that b. doubt she Is his fathers
fugitive slave
Mrs Schoo6eld also testified to having fully identified
the girl In Jail Eliza Crocus, her islands slave She
also stated that The resemblance between the girl
old Juno, the mother Of Eliza Crocu great that
it was impossible for them make any mistake in thu
mefterfhe had not the slightest doubt in The vC-lj
hst the girl in Jail IL MI Scheduled. fu ,tive slave
Mrs Sarah johnson affirmed that she had been to the
jail within few day. past and fully Recognized the rri
in question Ellis Cro.us who aDsccni-d about fclr
and sister She also fy described the peculls
form ard features II Juno and asserted hat the gil
strict resemblance 20 her that who had
them both could ever be mistaken.
Mrs Hannah nickbrunt testified that the girl eliza
Croeus, and her metb.T Juno, hsl formerly belong
edo her and that che had visited the called Rachel
Parker, in Jail and that there doubt In he mind
son Her resemblance 70 Juno her mother,
great that she could not be II taken.
Mr. A. l.. Scheduled testified that h. had exc FED
the power OF attorney and auth McCrc,ry
rest the gri-that he acted under fun authority from
him. The other daughter Henrietta preVieusly
her to Campbell few days after she arrested
her, McUreary had obtained his knowedgeof tho where
abouts Of Eliza VINO in jail under The az
Rachel Parker Henrietta acknowledged herself 70 To
his slave, and described the members Of his family, who
he named to her, accurately he could hin self.
There could be Of doubt as to the ideDty az
the girl
Tie further investigation OF the toep de-
erred until Monday when the Pennsylvanians propose
to bring further testimony TO the identity Roeccs
Parker, who had been living thirty years in Chester
county, as the mother Of the girl in Jail.