The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1854-03-08

The Martha Washington Consai.atora
again arrested.
CNcNNArI, Feb q, 1s5I.
DEAR REGISTER 1t appears that the
famous Martha Washington matter is
again to excite the public attention. 1t
is not at all surprising that a case Of SO
deep and complicated yillainy as this
should be repeatedly prcson'i 4 itself to
the public notice, especially when it was
hushcd up and covered over by the ne
cromancy Of law; nor is it wonderful
that some Of the projectors and czccu-
tors of the plot, should attcmpt to force
the law to give them uutarnishnd char
actors, and in their foolish attemptsdash
down the only feeble barriers which
could protect them from public contempt
ana personal violence.
Mr.. Sidney C. Barton, the individual
by whose untiring cxortions this whole
murderous scheme was ferretcd out,
and the criminals brought to the bar OF
justice has been living, ever since the
trial and acquittal Of Kissane and the
others, in a state Of much danger The
anger Of these men against him is Of the
most relentless kind Mr.. Burton con-
stantly goes armed to the teeth, to be
prepared for them.
a few wecksago, these men had an in
dictnont made out against him for per
jury, and had him arrested. lie gave
heavy bonds for his appearance when the
trial should come of, and in the mean
time it appears that he has not been idle.
Yesterday, the whole city was thrown
into connection by the announcement
that the whole body Of the defendants in
tho Martha Washington case had been
arrested Kissano, Cummings, Chaplin,
aud all the rest of them, had been con
Quoting themselves very insolently for
some time, bullying and browboating ev
cry one who had been implicated in the
proceedings against them, and, in one
case, had gone so far as to beat most un
mereifully, in tavern, with their fist.
and chairs, one man who had been {
strong witness against them
In ono hour all these fellows were 81
lently tracked to their haunts in thc
drinking dcns and tayerns of the city
and handeulfed, pat into omnibusses all,
started off down the river to be PLACED
on board steamer on their way to Ar
kansas
So secretly and carefully Lad thi
Mr. Burton planned and conducted hi
schemes that not the slightest suspicion
Of what he was about reached their ears
until the officers were locking the hand
cuffs around their wrists, when tho,
were told that they were to be taken t,
Arkansas, where the old steamer wa
burned, and there tried for robbery an,
murder on the high seas OF the Unite,
States.
When they heard this announcement
f no words can express their rage. The,
threatened. and blasphemcd and moutl
( cd their wrath. until the lookcrs.on wen
! away disguised. They solcmnly vowe
that Burton's life should lot be worth
barley straw To the driver Of the cal
riage in which they we're hudlled, the
, offered 500 500 $500. if he woql
only drive slow Their friends collec
ed around the toll.gates. and made a
G the trouble and delay they could, al
j. one man followed the cortogc of cursu
prisoners. for ten miles, trying to imlc(
their advance, in hope to give time f.
II. their lawyers to stop them by writ
r habeas corpus, before they should be b
3, You'd the limits Of the state but a
!, in vain. About eighteen or twent
, miles below this place, they were II
. on board q steamer, and before this, al
t safe in prison near the place where no
: est men and innocent children died Q
awful death by their yillaiuy
9. They say that Arkansas justice ia
It little wild, but true, and that when Il
rough backwooismen living near Il
y scene of the wreck heard how tender
f. these reckless gamblers upon human Ii
10 had been treated by the courts in Obi
o they smiled iguifcautly and wished
I try them there. Yours,
=, OK.
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