Weekly Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1853-1861, 1855-04-05
The Fugitive Slave Case-Decision of
Judge Parker-Gr eat Excit EN- emit
Rearrest by the United States Mar

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The decision of Judge Parker in the case
of the slave girl Rosetta, was rendered yes
terday morning. The court room was throng-
ed to its utmost capacity, and the main hall
of the court house and the streets fronting
were filled with colored persons, of every shade
and hue.
Judge Parker gave lengthy decision, and
concluded by ordering the girl to be discharg-
ed from the custody of the United States
Marshal, and to be restored to her guardian,
Mr. Van Slyke, appointed by the Probate
Court of Franklin County.
At this juncture a question was raised by
Messrs. Pugh and Finn, for the Marshal, as
to the responsibility of the United States
Marshal to the owner of the slave.
The court was occupied for over two hours
in hearing the discussion of the manner of
drawing up the order so as to relieve the
United StatesMarshal from any responsibility,
and, finally, without coming to any under
standing on the point, Judge Parker discharg-
ed the girl, and ordered her to be delivered
into the hands of the sheriff and his deputies
and by them delivered into the charge of her
guardian.
The announcement was received with min
gled shouts of applause and Kisses.
Sheriff Brashears, and his deputy, Thomas
Higdon, took charge of the girl, accompanied
by number of the police, and passing out
through the back door of the courtroom, they
emerged into Main street, where they were
met by an immense crowd of persons who
had rushed from Court street---The excite
ment here became intense =; the negro women,
who had been standing outside all the morn
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girl the negro men crowded forward, and
the entire mass, comprising five or six hun
dred persons, whites and blacks, started down
Main street, and the further they proceeded
they accumulated in number
On the way down to the Woodruff House,
where the guardian of the girl was stopping,
the officers having charge of Rosetta were
greeted with expressions of disapprobation
from the eolored persons, and encouragement
from the whites. The rush upon the side.
walks was so great, and the crowd so COM
pact, that store-boxes were knocked over,
stoves turned upside down, signs broken, and
general sweep made of all sidewalk obsta-
cles.
On Main-street several little disturbances
occurred among the beligerent outsiders, but
they were instantly quoted, and one person
"A cOlored man-was arrested and lodged in
the Hammond-street Station-house On ar
irving at the Woodruff House, the girl was
conveyed up stairs, and large concourse of
persons thronged on the outside Fearing
that some outbreak might occur, U. s. Mar
shall II. H. Robinson stepped out on the bal
cony, and stated to the crowd that nothing
would be done but in compliance with the
law; and he called upon all present to main
tain the peace and order
The guardian of the girl shortly afterward
arrived at the hotel, after an unsuccessful APP
plication for another writ of haJeas corpus, in
view of the re-arrest of the girl by the United
States Marshal. Rosetta was delivered to his
charge by the Sheriff, and Immediately re-
arrested upon the warrant issued by Commits
siOner Pendery, and taken into custody by
Marshal Robinson.
The hearing of the case will take place this
morning before Commissioner Pendery.-I
Gin. Enquirer March 30h.