Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1856-02-02
From the Cincinnati Gazette, Jan. %.
ARREST OF FUGITIVE SLAVES.
A SLAVE MOTHER MURDERS HER CHILD
RATHER THAN SEE IT RETURNED
TO SLAVERY.

the whole of yesterday, in consequence Of the ar
rest Of n party Of slaves, and She murder of her
child by a slave mother, while the officers were in
the act of making the arrest. A party Of seven
teen slaves escaped from Boone and Kenton coun-
ties, in Kentucky, (about sixteen miles from the
Ohio on Sunday night last, and taking with them
two horses and q sled, drove that night to the Ohio
river, opposite to Western Row, in this city. Leav-
ing the horses and sled standing there, they cross
ed the river on foot on the ice.
Five of them were the slaves Of Archibald X.
Gaines, three of John Marshall, both living in
Boone county, q short distance beyond Florence,
and six of Levi L. Daugherty, Of Konton county.
We have not learned who claims the other three.
About I o'clock this morning the masters and
their agents arrived in pursuit of their property.
They swore out q warrant before j. l.. Pendery,
Esq, u. S. Commissioner, which was put into the
hands Of Deputy L.. S. Marshal, Geo. S. Bennett,
who obtained information that they were in a house
belonging to a son Of 10. Kite, the third house be-
You'd Millcreek. The son was formerly owned in
the neighborhood from which they had escaped
and was bought from slavery by his father.
About 10 o'clock the Deputy U. S. Marshal pro-
ceeded there with his posse, including the slave
owners and their agent and Major Murphy, a Ken,
tuckian, and a large slave holder. Kite was call
ed out and agreed to open the door, but afterwards
refused, when two Kentucky officers, assisted by
some of the Deputy Marshals forced it, whereupon
the young negro man Simon, the father of the chill
dren, fired a revolver three times before he was
ovorpowerej. BY one Of these shots special Mar
shall John Patterson, who raised his arm to reach
the pistol, had two Of his fingers of his right hand
! -. n A. M ,t;l;,u L., L.
In the house were found four adults, viz: old
Simon and his wife, and young Simon and his wife
and four children of the latter, the oldest near six
years and the youngest a babe of about nine
months. One of these, however, was lying on the
floor dying, its head cut almost entirely off. There
was also o cash about four inches long in the
] throat Of the eldest, and q wound on the head Of
the other boy.
The officers state that when they questioned the
t boys about their wounds they said the folks threw
them down and tried to kill them.
The young woman, Peggy, and her four children
i belonged to Marshall, and her husband and the
I old manSimon and the old woman Mary to Gaines.
Old Simon and Mary are the parents Of young
s Simon.
The Jther nine of the party, we were informed,
G were put upon the cars yesterday, by a director Of
e the underground railway, and furnished with thro
t tickets.
Those arrested1 In Kites house. were taken tc
the u. S. Court Rooms about II o'clock, and guar
{ ded there until 3 o'clock, when Commissioner Pen
> derry CANT and opened his Court.
Gaines appeared to claim his negroes. Marshal
p was represented by his son, but as he has no power
of attorney from his father, the case was postpon
ed until 9 o'clock this morning, in order to give
o him time to supply this omission.
The fugitives were then taken to the Harmon
street station house to Sc kept over. night. The
Marshal attempted to get a hack to carry them
there, hut the crowd frightened all the hackmen
that were called so that they declined. They were
afraid their carriages would be broken by the
{ mob.
About an hour after they were taken there, Mr..
!, Gaines came along with the dead body Of the MUIR
dered child. lie was taking it to COvington for in
f terment that it might rest in ground consecrated
to slavery.
About 3 O'Clock a habeas corpus was issued by
Judge Burgoyne, and put into the hands of Depu-
! ty Sheriff JEFF. Buckingham. lie went down to
he Hammond street Station House, accompanied
bv a posse, and took possession of the fugitives.-
Deputy Marshal Bennett refused at first to give
them up, but at length, after consulting with May
or Farran, came and agreed to compromise ty
permitting them to be lodged for safe keeping in
t the county Jail. During this debate, Lieut.. lIazen
who has charge of Hammond street Station House
refused to admit the gentleman who swore out the
habeas corpus. When Gaines, the master, came
G along he was freely ADMITTED, and this gentleman
walked in behind him, but was seized by Lieu.
+, Hazen and put out.
, Deputy Sheriff Buckingham having put the fugi-
5 tives in a bus, got in himself, and directed it to
S be driven to the Jail, but Mr.. Bennett jumped on
the box and ordered the driver to drive to the Us.
Court Rooms. Here another fuss ensued, and Ben
net by the assistance of special Marshals, run the
n fugi.ives up into his Office. But Buckingham sent
: for Sheriff Brashears and a large force. and by
s these they were re-taken and finally lodged in the
: county Jail about s o'clock last evening.
They are now in the eustody of the Sheriff, and
it is said will not be forthcoming to attend Com,
= missioner Pendery's Court this morning.
Il Judge Burgoyne, after issuing the writ, started
a to Columbus. 1t is presumed he will be back al
9 IL o'clock this morning, the hour at which tMt
writ is returnable.
d THE INQUEST ON THE DEAD CHILD.
: Coroner Menzies held an inquest yestesday af
o ternoon on the body of the murdered slave child
d Its throat appeared to have been cut by a single
e stroke of a knife, and it died a few minutes after
the arrest. Mr., Sutton, who lives next door tc
I Kites, testified that after the other slaves were ar
rested by the officers, Mr.. Gaines, the master, took
| this child and was in the act of carrying it off
4 when objections were made to it being removed
before an inquest was held, lie at length surren
.idered it to Mr.. Sutton, in whose arms it died.
The inquest was not concluded, but will be re
> sumed at 0 o'clock this morning, at the Coroner'i
a office.
THE OBJECT OF THE HABEAs CORPUS.
l. Ii is said that il can be proven that these slaves