Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1860-04-05
STATEMENT OF MR.. sANBoRN.
CONCORD, Mass, April 3, 1860.

ing account of the outrageous proceedings
against him =
STATEMENT OF MR.. sANBoRN.
CONCORD, Mass, April 3, 1860. |
III o'clock at night.
To the Citizens Of Massachusetts:
have to inform you that a cowardly assault
was committed on me this evening, at about
81 O'Clock, in my oCn house. by four or five per-
sons claiming to have authority to arrest me.
The facts are these:
l came in from a call about 8 o'clock, and
was sitting, in my slippers, at my desk, when
a knocking called me to the door, | went
down stairs, opened the door, when small
man entered and said, docs Mr.. Sanborn live
here's" Chat is my name, sir" said l, put.
ting out my hand to welcome him. "Here is
paper for you" said he, handing me folded
one, which | took.
AT that moment gray-haired, tall, and stout
man entered the open door and said, 81 arrest
you, Mr.. Sanborn" "By what AUTHORITY 2"
said /, "and what is your name 2" He gave
no name, bnt said, 81 am from the United
States Marshal's Office" or something of the
sort. "What is your authority-your war
rant" repeated l. eve have warrant"
said some one, for by this time two more men
appeared. "Show tread it," said l. A
small man calling himself Freeman latter
wards, for none would give their namesl. be.
gan to read paper, but had only got through
few lines, when the gray haired ruffian took
a pair of handouts from his pocket and pro.
ceedcd to put them on my wrists, / standing
in my own house, without hat or boots, only
in slippers of cloth
A whistle was given; some men rushed in,
none of them known to me, and carried me by
force to the street. where stood a carriage with
two horses. They lifted me from the ground,
and tried to put me in the carriage. resisted
with my feet, for my hands were fast in the
manaces. They tried two or three times with
out success, breaking the carriage, but the
horses started and they could not get me in.
In the meantime, my cries and those of my
sister had called my neighbors from their
homes who surrounded the rufians and pre-
vented them from carrying me off.
stood IN the street, in my slippers, half an
hour, wearing the handouts, until Deputy
Sheriff Moore took me by force from the ruff
tans hands under writ of habeas corpus, is.
sued by Judge Hoar. Their names, given af
ter long time, and reluctantly, were Silas
oai'on - Coolidge, - Tarleton, and
freeman. There were two or three 9th.
ers whose names have not learned.
eeh minutes after / was handcuffed
oa".ns IN the street, Freeman read me n
:S ., signed by Vice President Rrecker,
Fluge' Tor my arrest with an endorsomen,
S on "enair, sergeantatarms of the IT g
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The arrest of Mr.. Sanborn was the occas,o,
of demonstration of very exciting chora ,.D
Of which there are various accounts w.
Boston journal gives the following partic,,
lars
HOW THE ARREST WAS MADE.
About nine o'clock a man named Freema,
went to Sanborn's door and rang the bell
Sanborns sister answered the call Freeman