Cleveland morning leader. [volume] (Cleveland [Ohio]) 1854-1865, 1859-05-12

| tOh lin hlbNhIA 4 GAND
| From the Akron Beacon.
Fuaitlves from Justice and Fugitives from
| Service
At the term Of the United States District
| Court, at Cleveland, as our readers know, some
| ,hirty-seven citizens of Lorain county, were in.
dicted for rescuing or aiding and abetting in
the rescue of man claimed as a fugitive slave
at Wellington. 1t is charged that one Of the
Grand Jury was the person who, through the
agency Of his son, enirapped the negro in ques
ton, decoying him under pretence of employing
him to work. The charge of Judge Wilson
to the Grand Jury was published in the Cleve
| land papers, and furnished the subject Of not a
| little comment. The Leader, in cOnneC ton with
the proceedings, observed that "a tale could be
unfolded touching an Indictment in Erie coun-
| tv, New York, for violating the laws Of that
State by aiding and abotting in Kidnapping a
colored man from Buffalo, for the purpose Of
returning him to Slavery"
The facts referred to by the Leader, il fully
narrated, tend to throw light upon some of the
"antecedents' and "proclivities' Of certain per-
sons who have been and are prominent before
the public.
| In ls4l, Henry b. Payne and Hiram V. Will.
sou were practising law in Cleveland, u ldcr the
firm name of Payne d Wilson. j. w. Gray,
now of the Cleveland PIamdeaisr, was a student
of law in that office.
Henry Jackson, mulatto, kept a barber shop
| in Cleveland. ln the summer Of that year, two
ugtiyes from service, from Louisiana, wo be
ieve, were staying with Jackson, in his EN-
poy. They had confded their story and the
name Of the party from whom they escaped, to
their employer, Jackson.
In consequence of some disa -reement, they
left Jackson and sought employment elsewhere;
one of them, Alex, light, likely muatto, as
a barber in Buffalo the other as a cook on the
steamer De Witt Clinton.
Enraged at their leaving him, Jackson went
to the office of Payne & Wilson, and disclosed
their entire story, and, perhaps hoping to get
a reward, procured letter to be written to
| their owner or claimant in louisiana
The State fugitive law was then in force in
| Ohio IAN act in relation to fugitves from ser.
vice and labor passed by the Legislature Of
1898 g. On the Prigg case it was afterwards
decided that all such legislation by the States
was unconstitutional and this Act was repealed
1t was then a cheap and convenient process OF
rendition.
In due time, Mr.. Vernon Linlenberger of
Louisiana, appeared in Cleveland, with the evi.
denccs of title, and with authority to reclaim
the fugitiyes. The public mind was somewhat
|
desirable to secure the two in the same boat
and dispose of both cases at once Linten
berger found shrewd advisers. A warrant
for the arrest OF the boys was issued by Jus.
lice HOadey and placed in the hands of an Of
ticer, we IeIeve named wait.
To get Alex FROM Buffalo to Cleveland rcqui-
red dextrous management But Lintenberger,
the irber, Jackson and the attorneys we're equal
{ the emergency. The two first named and
II. " Wilson, Esq, went to Buffalo. Ami.
wing there jackson went to persuade Alex to
come back to Cleveland with him on the De
Witt Clinton assuring him that Mr.. Hanks,
the painter, was ANXIOUS to take him as an ap-
prentice, and that if he Would 90 at once be
would secure this desirable situation and that
the opportunity was too good to be lost by de.
lay.
Alexis objections were overcome, Jacksol
promising TO pay his passage money DC and
thus he was decoyed on board the Dewitt Gin.
ton. his fellow fugitive being cook on the same
! beat /! and the whole party returned. Arriving
Quoted Alex up the street, where by preconcert,
the officer was waiting for him, and securing
him, proceed to the Boat and arrested the other.
| Thus they were captured together, which was
an important point gained They were placed
in thfjail for safe detention, and the Tailor was
drected-so it was reported--to allow no per.
son access to them. The arrest was made about
tha 3rd of Sc, .tember ls4l.
a habeas corpus was sucd out on their be.
| halt by Thomas Bolton Esq, now President
Judge Of the Common Pleas, who being then
| Prosecutor of the County, had no difficulty in
gaining access to the prisoners The habcas
corpus was TetuInabe before Judges Josiah
Barber and Fred. Whittesey. For some rca.
son. we do not Tecoect precisely what, the
hearing upon the habeas corpus was POSTPONED
and the boys held in $1,000 each One of
them, Alex, was bailed out temporarily by John
Brown, a well known barber in ClavelauI. far
the purpose, we think Of enabling him to 90 to
Buffalo to make complaint before the Grnnd
Jury OF Erie Co n. Y against his abductors -
Two gentlemen whose names it is needless To
give, vent also to Buffalo upon the same or
rand. Mr.. Rogers of Buffalo was then District
Attorney A bill of Indictment was found
against Vernon Lintenberger, Henry Jackson
and Hiram V. Wilson for Kidnapping or aiding
and assisting in the kidnapping 0fAlek
A rcquisition was made by the Governor OF
New York upon the Governor of Ohio for the
surrender of these three 'flgitiyes from ius
tice," and about the 10th day Of September,
an officer came up from Buffalo to receive
them.
BY some means-eupposed to be by friend
" whisper from one of the deputy sherins-
Lintenberger got wind of the proceedings and
disappeared jackson also vamosed. He after.
wards located at Cincinnati, where he resided
up to the time of his death, a year or two
since. The proceedings as to Mr. Wilson were
dropped, the principal in the affair having es-
capped.
In general jail breaking Alex, who had
been again put IN jail escaped without WAITING
Tor the hearing in habeaS corpus. The other
II we mistake not-was discharged on account
OF some informality or defect in the title papers
or proceedings.
Nothing is known Of their fortunes thereaf
ter.
Lintenberger is equally uoknovu to present
fame.
II. V Wilson is now Judge of the United |
States District Court for the Northern District |
of Ohio.
Jackson, as already stated is dead
The tale is told fairly, though perhaps in
some points imperfectly. We do not know
that 1t demands any comment from us, further
than to say that it shows that the fugitive
from justice" clause, like the fugitive from
service and labor" clause, has Somehnes.
through connivance, failed Of complete execu.
ton.
From the Cincinnati Phuaulhropist, Of Nov IOh Isll
BAseness.
CLEVELAND, Oct. 18th, ls4l.
DIR. BAILEY AS much interest has been ex.
,ited in the case of the two colored persops
recently kidnapped in the State Of New York,
now forward you short account of this afro
ilous transaction, with the names of those con
,cned
In August fellow by the name Of Linden
berger from Louisiana, an expelled officer from