New-York daily tribune., 1854-05-27
ANOTHER FUGITIVE SLAVE CASE.
THREE MORE VICTIMS HURRIED INTO SLAVERY
FULL PARTICULARS OF THEIR ARREST
AND RENDITION.

The Irst Evening Edition OF yesterday : TRIBUNE an-
nounc,d the in this City OF three ceored men named
stephen H. Robert and Jacob Pembroke, the first claimed
IS tie slave of David Smith of sharpsburg Washington
County Nd the others the slaves OF Jacob H. Grove
Of the same place. We were enabled then TO give bu.
very brief summary the principal facts Of the case and
we now proceed to give the details. As set forth in the af
fday, below these alleged slaves escaped about the 2ss
dsv of the present month. Their masters, getting in-
telligerce of their movements, came on to Baltimore
There they procured the services Of Officer Graham OF the
.l,,ecstchinp firm of Graham Poiee 4 Mckinley, the
most noted of his class in Baltimore since Archibald IT,
Riigeoy went his final accoun and proceeded to PM
.delpha Getting wind of the intentions of the uStves
through stoopigeOn, they managed to get on the
same train. and so accompanied their victims as far
ss Newark. " j. There the fustives thought it
viest TO leave The train, and they did unobserved
by their pusues until the were II motion for jersey
Cvthey being all this time unconscious Of the proximity
Of the claimants and their plant official agents-Graham
and one Augustus Briggs who also came on to serve ihem
A. convenient witness. The subsequent arrival of the
coored men in this City during Wednesday evening was
watched with all the vigilance Of the aforesaid claimants
and their acouts assisted by such coaederaes in this City
they readily found assist in their peculiar work They
were traced to the dwelling OF coored family IN lhomp-
son-st where they permitted to remain IN uncon
.orsness Of porsoral danger until very early hour this
the lock forced and the inmates hurried of to the police
station TO await the of United States authorities
BY what authority rule of right, the appliances of oS
Coro-rton were thus used to subsene the interests OF
MARYLAND we have not been nformed.l Abou. ! clock
a. near as we could ascertain the Marshal of this District
Abraham Y Hitler carried the fugitiyes before the l. =
Marshal George ". Morton, where the case came up Tor
the most summary and hasy hearing that has ever char
acterized our Judicial proceedings The claimants
Nessrs Grove and Smith, represented by the law
firm of Dunnng Smith Of this city as counsel while the
defendants were totally unrepcscned! The meres1 forms
of the Fugitive Slave Law Of 1850 were then hurried
brouch as shown by the oich record, which we give,
verbatim, follows
II the matter Of the .ppicson Of David Smith for the reclamation
" Of RSer ass BOB Pembroke Jacob a JAKE Penbr.sk
ALLEGED fugitive. from service and labor from the state Of Ma
Nay g sse,.-, Dgnnnr snd Smith sPgesr for che CLIENT,
and Inc dav David smith end Augustus
David Smith .vcrr ysHe resides in w',haston County Mary
and hs; resided hee near shy years. '.oT 3 b, "a, Ss BORN
while she slave they are st ny slave @ ans @ o"g b, Is
service ard labor Av they both escaped irom my service a
Ii being 'sys-I9 reside; At ss,,R'I9ss S.s5
Smith present and have known him since ny infancy We nave
ben ben 5.0 + sy ss po @ the two boy present claimed
MI smith since ths n6s, a. t Rs % va wa, born Of slave
mo wa. horn while The mother ~s C slays
l. he the application Of jacob H. Grove ot ths s
STEPHEN Pembroke fugitive from service and 'Aoo'
May N MINI Dunnns offers in evidence the record from Che
pe % H 'SsI Srcve % .S af Ipausrs Bs. and calls:
Dsyd smith who eeins sron .sy' Iaa ne ieq, %
Pembroke pre- nave known hin some twenty odd years
at 6 Ma D on M oS farm: hs ~s then the
and owed him service and labor :. slave under
the Msfyaud the M owing day be escaped from the ser
vice OF M Grove and accompanied M Grove here for the
tupose Of aiming HIM husband Of slave belonging
10 ard slave since have known him. 70 Mr.
smith he mother The wife o. ~ ays & sf0Osn' @ 20 ws
him reclaim them have known them from hsl Infancy ana
know and 10 service and labor as saves under
the Mary snd they escaped about the 2ss OF May n and
arrested IL this district
The documents are from the L. s. District Court for
Maryland, bore the signatures Of William Fell Giles
Judge Of and Mr.. Spicer, Clerk OF the Court and Of
Levin Gale. L. s. Commissioner for the Maryland Dis
triot in the usual FORM They were brought on by Ora
hmm a. Special Dopu;y-Narshal, and were admitted in
evidence without question Will be seen by the foregoing
transcript:
The other papers referred to- making part OF the pro-
ceeding before Commissioner Morton, consisted OF ehia
Wits by Jacob H. Grove the claimant Of stephen H. rem
broke and David Smith claimant of Robert and Jacob
Pembroke We give that Of Grove in order that those
not conversant with such matters may See what conVen
lent forms have been prepared in advance for the future
Shareholders of Nebraska whose triumph IN the passage
OF the Nebraska BILL is being celebrated by Northern
cenonades write this accommodating the more ma
terial and less formal parts Of the others:
UNITED STATES or AsrrcA-S0uller District Of Nee York
jacob II Grove Of w..nPI.on co9niy Msry.1d osss be sg
man Stephen Pembroke about " or - years Of age
a
yee and .o1r t deponeni IN ne & @ % se he ssS Save
ihe Avs o. ihe t. o. o ~ & bs 2 dsy Of Nav inst and
now dPopsr sf.I2ed 'IS e'9 "a nS .nd bs, sss
deto of Stephens follower sa; be about I'VE ise
or seven inches hsh, o. ea.A e % % dssa a s ss ao he
ssd n.go Is years and he has awsy 9onn9ea sVs
until he made h, e.espe s.. vx taS. h. hs,s ~aU, M
GEORGE ". MORTON L. :. Commissioner
The nronal descriptions of his chattes given by Mr.
Smith In his afidavts which in other respects pre-
cisev as the above sufficiently charaetersTc for re-
cord. They represent that;
hgh Of dark color and has on the or part Of ne
hack Of In, neck between the shoulders Iha. the said
slave Jacob Jake Is about five feet Our lihes hsh, Of
a dark color, has large thick lips, and 1oops
Ia order TO comply with the law. while, al the same
tine securing himself TO the utmost amplitude OF the
poor pay allowed for such services separate warrant
for each fugitive given by the COMMISSIONED We
print that given to Smith:
J>iTrD AStElc4Staf- q N5 ioscty ard cOsrV
David Smith claimant Of Jacob Or JAKE PeeahrOok
n labor being daily cspoles snd ssT-Ihai eetncae
sS he soutbeh De. Of in pursuance
1850 by which be authorized AXE AID the Jacob Jake
Pensook the State Maryland from whence be has es
~ ia, b -. rea,or 10 believe and sppreherd that
beyoud the Of The srste o. York IN which the az
=. re- Of t sa ess 1 :. ef "a I ss uad ss Mshsl
ard who has sad Fasie h.. eussody = lam SAD
fugitive in bis custody and remove m u me s-e o. A-JaAo'
"-'-' * '-' - -' DAVID SMITH.
Sven t.tc.e ne thss .5th d,v Of Msy 1884,
GEO. ". MORTON, L. : Co1uasic1er.
We have fixed q O'Clock the hour at which the hear
ng was had but We could not speak definitely on that
point If essential because OF most unusual difficulty en-
countered in ascerainng the times and circumstance Of
this latest case Of pro-slavery triumph. AID here we WI
add that al the Commissioner Office a. also a. the lar-
shslls Office the friends OF humanity including gen.
tomen employed as counsel for the defense were gyel
distinctly to understand that the fugitives we're gone
some hours before they were actually tlEen rom We
Ctv-so that the ascertanment Of e contrary TACT Wts
= ,l.,f friarls ni