Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1854-03-25
FUGITIVE RESCUE CASE IN MILWAUKEE,.

We have already announced the news Of the
arrest and subsequent rescue OF the fugitive GLov
rR, VINO was kidnapped under the provisions Of
the fugitive law at Racine Milwauke. We add
the following additional particulars. The case
has excited tremendous excitement in Wisconsin.
Tue Nebraska Swinde has aroused the people to
desperation The claimant is believed to be pro-
fcssed slave catcher from Missouri, and is the
same man who prowlng around there last
year for colored men, and though he was baked Of
his prey at that time, yet he boastcd that lie was
well paid for bis trouble, for he had learned tho
whereabouts Ct fifteen fugitives, and that he should
yet make good speculation out oft.
The kidnapping gentry planned scheme e
ehirap GLOVER. They got hold Of q miserable col
ored man, Turner liquored him up, supplied him
with liquor and cards, and sent him up to ge
GLOVER drunk, and be on hand to open the dooi
when they came at night to take him.
TURNER did rs requested got GLOVER into the
house Of colored neighbor but GLOVER drank
sparingly. AboutS o'clock in the evening, Deputy
CARNEY and IoLroN. of Racine the slave catcher
and his confcree, Marshal CoTIoS, Of this City
Knocked at tho door. The owner said, don't LET
us open the door till We know who they are
But Turner, the traitor, according TO promise,
rose and opened the door, and they all rushed IN,
Deputy CARNEY, with strong club, struck GLOVER
on his head. rs he was sitting in his chair, and
felled him to the floor
This was the first seyUice process made by DE
putty Marshal CARNEY, under United States author
ity. This club, covered with blood and hair from
0lover's head, is in possession OF the friends OF
Freedom. at Racine, and will be q swift witness
against the kidnappers. While they we're gagging
and binding GLOVER, the owner Of the house leap
cd Quit is said-through the window, escaped
and gave the alarm
The excitement that followed upon the spread
Of the news, we have already narrated. But the
Judge who made out the writ, and the Marshal
who served it denied to BooTH, in Milwaukee
that any persons had been injured, and they ncarl,
succeeded in throwing him of the track by thei
dastardly falsehoods.
GLOVER at the time he was kidnapped, wa
living on Root River, about four miles from Racine
The slave catcher, Deputy Marshal CARNEY, q
Racine, and Mr.. lloLToS, lived II miles west q
Racine,
Boorm, Of the Milwaukee Free Democrat, say
that he saw a rush for the Jail among the immens
crowd who had been deliborating on what wa
best to be done for the fugitive; thousands ha
fockcd to the Court House square, and around tli
jail, the excitement being intense.
A man quickly kicked in the outer door, Picl
axes broke through the wall by the side Of th
guard door, lined with iron aud strongly boltcC
the castings were removed and the door taken ou
the cell door was soon opened and in about fftec
ininutcs the prisoner was out amid great checrin;
placed IN n two horse buggy, and taken TO Walker
Point bridge in double quick timc-the crowds
the streets from the Court H)use to the Bridg
cheering him.
AT the bridge. GLOVER left this buggy and too
another, and soon disappeared. lie did not reac
Racine Saturday evening, rs was expected I'll
thaw having affected the underground railroad,
that the locomotive had to take "a new track. r.
cine was all excitement Yesterday, aud the mlitar
were under AIMS. We tcleeraphed them
] o'clock i. VI. yesterday, that there was mi
take about the life aud health of GLOVER. lie wa
delivered at Racine at sunrise this morning, ami
great reioicngs.
The Milwaukee Sentinel says:
We, with others, went to the jail and found tn
fugitive in cell lie was called out into thC
passage, and what sight was there The maj
was cut in two places on the head and front Q
his shirt and vest were soaking and stiff in hi
own blood.
The man tells US, that he has been in this Stat
two years, and that he was at work for I'll
persons we have named above, and that they ov
him about fifty dollars ; and he was sitting in Ii
shanty when the men came in, aud one placed
revolver to his head he put up his hand to pui
itaway, when he was knocked down senseless, al
removed to the wagon. The man or men swo
that If he shouted or made the least noise tho
would kill him instantly