The Lansing state Republican. [volume] (Lansing, Mich.) 1855-1874, 1860-11-07


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States that England of 1860 and England of ITO
are very different things
From the Chicago Tribune, OcSbsr Goth
kIDNAPPERS ARRESTED.
Jerry Boyd, an honest industrious aud mot
fensive cOlOred drayman of our neighboring city
OF Galena, where he led a sooer and reputable
life for twenty years; his wife, Mary Boyd,
whom he had brought out Of slavery with mon.
ey earned by the sweat of his brow; a girl also
colored but also free, aged = to IA, who lived
in Jerrys family; and a white child tat Mary
took care OF for poor woman at service, were
entioed away from their home two or three weeks
ago by couple OF strangers, upon the pretence
that the three Oldest persons Of the party were
to have profitable and pleasant employ on
farm and in hotel at Des MOines, Iowa. They
"o'e i".' seen in johnson county of that State
IN covered wagon, going westward. A few
days after their departure from that county, the
body OF a man was found by the road side; near
where they were last seen, and from papers in
his pocket it was plain that it was the body Of
Boyd, and that he had been murdered. News
OF his death went back to his friends in Galena,
and then for the first time q suspicion that the
Ns
was excited; that suspicion grew into a certain.
| ty by further developments; and the people who
used to see Boyd every day at his work earning
honest bread, offered, though he was mulatto,
a reward OF five hundred dollars for the appre.
| hensiOn of the villains who had committed dou.
BILE crime; and dispatched two trusty men to fol.
low the criminals up. These facts We published
| before, but since they were laid before our read
ers, We have heard nothing of the dreadful case
But the mystery is now solved. Read
From the st. Joseph Gazette, Oct 20
Our city was thrown into considerable excite.
ment yesterday by the arrival of two kidnappers
under arrest and guarded by citizens of this coun.
ty. The particulars 30 far as We can gather
them are about as follows: The kidnappers,
named Bolton and Goodwin, came into the lower
part of the county few days ago, and stated
that tAey had four negroes which they desired
| to sell. They succeeded in effecting sale, but
| before the money was paid over, one of the ne
grOes, Mary Boyd, informed a gentleman that
| they had all been kidnapped in Galena, Illinois,
and that one of the number, man, bad been
killed after crossing the Mississippi river, because
he would not submit to be ironed, this informs.
ton led to the arrest Of the kidnappers, and they
are now in ja' in this city awaiting the arrival
of persons from Galena to identify the negroes
The woman, Mary Boyd, at the time of being
kidnapped was nursing child of white woman
named Susan Goodlsp, who lives with Mr.. Wig.
ley, All attorney at law in Galcna, and the child
was brought here with the negroes, and passed
off here as Mary Boyd's offspring. Jerry Boyd
was the name of the negro who was killed, and
has brother living in st. Louis, named Thomas
Boyd. Mary Boyd was once the property Of
man named Vandeventer, a clothing merchant in
st. Louis.
Goodwin is a Canadian, and stranger in these
parts Bolton married in this county and lives
in Caldwell county. They we're arrested by the
slave owners to whom they attempted to sell the
kidnapped negroes.
,,.y -, - IIu~np k~.r
contained an account of a negro having been
murdered near that place, and the citizens offer
ed a reward of 81 900 for the arrest OF the muir
derers. 1t is not improbable that the murdered
man was Jerry Boyd.
The Mayor of Galena was telegraphed to yes.
terday, and request made that come ono who
could identify the negroes be sent here to testify
against the kidnappers. II Bolton and Goodwin
have been guilty of the crimes charged upon
them, they should and will suffer the extreme
penalty Of the law. We learn that it was with
difficulty the citizens of this county could be
prevented from executing summary punishment
upon the prisoners, when the facts % above
related became known. They will, probably,
be sent to Iowa for trial for the murder of Jerry
Boyd.
From the Gaena C,urier, Oct. Gath.
The gentlemen who left here few days ago,
in pursuit of the two negroes who had been kid.
mapped from this place, short time since, re-
turned this morning, bringing with them the two
negroes they were in pursuit Of, and alsn anOth.
er which had been kidnapped by the same per.
SONS some six weeks before, from Dubuque,
Iowa. They were decoyed away by a man call
. ing himself George Wilder, who Was properly
named John Goodwin, and who was accompanied
. by his father.in-law, named Peter l.. Bolton
both residents of Caldwell county, Missouri
These two men murdered Jerry Boyd one of the
/; kidnapped negroes, on the SOth Of September
{ last, near Iowa City, Iowa. These men are re
2 spectably connected in Buchanan county, No.
about fourteen miles south of the city Of st. 10
4 seph. They we're both arrested near st. Joseph
d One of them, Bolton, the first captured, va
!. committed to jail in st. Joseph on the charge O
!. kidnapping, in default of g. 900 bsil. The other
:, Goodwin, was taken charge Of by the gentleme
e from this city, who brought him within fort
O miles Of Hannibal, Missouri, on their way to thi
/, place, where he slipped his irons, and jumpe
d from the car window while the train Wa run
il uing at the rate of thirteen miles an hour, an
II escaped.
e ABOUT Two mOnt0S ago tuey SNCCecoSu III w
?, coying away Q woman from Dubuque. name
E. Mary Baker, and lately took from this pla<
e, Mary Boyd, wife of Jerry Boyd, who was mu
s. dered, and q mulatto girl about IA years oil
v the daughter of colored woman in this vicin
e. ty. When the gentlemen from 0alena arrive
a, where these negroes were, the bargain VI
re made, and the negro buyer Was at ST. JOSEF
lg getting the money to pay for them. The pri
for them was 81, ZOO. In the meantime the fa
re of the murder of Jerry Boyd came out throu,
as Mary Boyd, his wife, and information was se
es here Of the whereabouts Of the negroes and
Id men.
ng How Jerry Boyd was murdered is thus 81
el ted:
ne We understand Mrs. Boyd states that wh
of the party had travelled three days out from Ga
ms ma, they encamped by night about sixteen mi
,n- from Iowa City. Here some movements ms
70 by Goodwin and Bolton excited the suspcioni
tie Jerry that all was not right, and he loaded
uld gun and revolver in the presence Of the kidI
ase psrs. The next morning Goodwin and Boil
,u, held consultation, Goodwin urging the nece1
: is sy Of getting rid of Jerry by killing him. WI
uld Jerry was sitting down near the wagon, 80
.rs, vim stepped up to him saying, "Jerry,
,rs. afraid Of you," and fred first shooting him
Ugh the breast and then in the head. The mur
our was committed in the presence Of Mrs. Boyd
to the mulatto glL
ed Now let us have justice! The crime OF
uch mapping, under the notions Of the Democr
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