Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1859-11-12

4 was In my Office, abe ut 3 o'clock, when two
men came in and asked me to 20 down with them
to the Franklin Hotel. They said they had q man
whom they supposed to be Capt. Cook. / told
them they should bring him up here before me
to my office. They said there we're a great many
persons there, AID likely to DO considerable ex-
citenent, and | had better 60 up with them to see
him.
i went there and found this man supposed to
be Cook, with a room full Of persons outside. /
then sat alongside If this man they called Cook
and told him that there we're accusations to be
preferred against him Of q very serious nature,
and informed him Of his rights. put him on his
legal guard, told him that he was not obliged to
J say anything which would ~criminaie himself. l
then found that he looked %hnggard, and told them
to give bin something to eat. They did 80.
There we're at the time about forty persons in the
room.
They brought food, and he ate very heartily.
| thought the poor fellow had not eaten anything
for somtine before.
! After he had eaten sometime, ! asked his ac-
cusers what grounds they had to suspect this
man to De Capt. Cook.
They went on and stated that he had Q me out
of the mountains, and asked for some salt meat ;
and (this was Fitzbugb) stated that he had been
hunting in the mountains, and had got out of pro-
{ visions. F. saw a man called Logan, who is a
%middliug rough kind of a man, and made signs
30 keep with him. Logan let on he had a store up
the road, and that he would give him some silt
meat. Fiizhugh winked at Logan, and whispered
that ho believed this was Cook, when Logan put
his hand on his shoulder and said, You are nv
prisoner.
The expression Of Logan was, that Cook sprang
up like q wire trap. He ran his hand into his
pocket. Logan, being o stout man, caugh. him
by the arm and held to. They had u great deal
OF difficulty, both Of them, to get him down. To-
gan is strong, active man, and yet both of them
could hardly get him to The ground. Finally they
succeeded in getting him down. They then took
away his arms. lie had a pistol and campaign
~knife-which is q knife with q fork and a spoon.
The pistol was 9 fve-inch revolver, with six bar.
rels, and finely finished. 1t was fully loaded and
capped.
Finding the excitement increasing, | appcin-
ted q special police Of six, and had Cook conduct
ed to my Office.
The excitement was a commingled matter Of
! pity for the man 10 the condition be was 10, and
curiosity to see him..
As soon as Cook was brought to my Office, l re-
pented the advice l had given him at the tavern,
to put him on his legal guard-when he said that
il such was the law, be chose to remain quiet,
and not answer any question.
Il then swore the accusers.
'Fitzhugh was the first witness, end repeate I
his statements made at ;he tavern
innuired vhere theae mar ,,ntrrod rooL
AT Mount Alto,' the Justice said,' near
I~Iughes's founderies.'
The hardest place in this country said q by.
s.ander.
In what respectf I asked. DO you mean NOR
allyn
Yes he said 'they are tho hardest people in
this section there-just such folk as would deligh,
to do such actions. Cook coule not have chosen
a worse locality in all this State than that neigh.
n borhood. If be had gone by the North Mountain,
=. be would easily have escaped
f asked the character Of Fitzhugh. He occu.
r pies, it appears, a respectable position in thu
4 county he is a nephew of Hughes, the best bust
@ ness man in the county, and is employed ne 9
clerk in his founderies. He told the Telegram,
;. operator to send his name in full, as he wanted
{ hio u W see IL. lie is q nephew o.
Gerrit Smith, ho maintains, by marriage. The
last time he was at the North, he said, he called
e on uncle Gerrit, and complained that he set him
down at table between two free ~niggers,' as he
: phrased it. He is n native OF Maryland, and hi.
family are people Ct some Importance in that State
r Logan, on October IA. 1857, was charged before
$ Justice Reisher with attempting to abduct a free
black from Pennsylvanis, for the purpose Of sell
6 ing him in Maryland or Virginia. He was reman
/ ded for trial, but at the instance of one Of hi.
J, prosecutors, a noHe prosequiwas entered. lie j,
: supposed to have bought him off. He bears ths
t reputation OF a negro-catcher. Fi,zhugh did no
o wish to be sworn, on the pretext that his cvidenc.
was unnecessary, but for the real purpose Of con
t cealing the ubiquitous part they both had played
i in the capture Of Cook. Tie Justice oyerrulec
q the wish.
? Logan, after making a rehearsal Of the sam,
matter, and saying that Cook would have sho
him if he had not held c. to his arm, remarked
repeatedly that Cook was a good man, a brav,
3 man, a man of great nerve that if there was
brave man in the country, he was one, and If b,
had been in proper condition, be would not hav,
been taken. Both Of the accusers praised Cook
bravery. Both testified that, although Cock wa
nearly famisbed, and a small man, neither Of then
separately could have managed him.
Q After having secured him. they took hiu
, down to the house to get something to eat; tolc
him that they pitied his case very much ; that h.
e might get clear that bis best course was to q
a before a magistrate. enter bail, and then, to us,
Logan's word, skeet, or escape.
They rather got Cook persuadsd-Logan did
o that he was friendly to him.
r Il then asked the Witness said the magistrate
if he had made any offer or promise of reward Il
Il the prisoner. in order to produce this change il
d his feelings.
s lie denied having made any other than tina
d to 20 before a magistrate would be the castles
Q way to get of.
T After being sworn. Logan was asked il Cool
had made any declaration with regard to whom
Q he was.