New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1860-11-05
THE GhLERA KID EAPPERS

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Jerry Boz d, an honest, industrious and ioofsnsive
eolOre6 dfs, man of our n,igtbOrng ctY OF Gaisus,
whers he had LED SOBER sud reputable te for twenty
years: bic wife M-ry Boyd, whom be had bought ont
Of ssvery with mon earned by hes weat Of hts bro
q girl, also coored bu, aao free aged ~ to IA, who
lived n Jsrry's family sud white cbild tiat Mary
took care Of for poor woman at service were eaced
swsy from their home two or three weeks aga 10y
upe Of persons upOu the preeo O. that ID. three Old
ct perscns Of the party to have prOdtahla snd
pletsant employ NETT on f-rm aud IN hotel at Des
Woiues Iowa. they were last seen Ia j hnson County
Of that s'e, in a covered wagon goog west ward.
few 6sys after their departure iron tnN county, 'he
BODY of a man was found by the roadside wnere
ttey were lsst seeD from pspfrs IN his pocket
was plsio that it VS. ibe BODY Of BOYD, aod that he
had b, en- murdered NeSs OF his death went ba X to
bis friends in GsieDA aud then for the hr4 nme su'
picon that the party been kidnspp-d for safe into
slavery wss exct-d. ThAi tuspioDo grew into GER
taiDfy by further d, veop ments and the people WHO
us TO h I'd every day a. his work, earning con
est bread offered thougo be wa1 mOlatto, reward
Of So for tee preheDson If the viiiars who had
Committed a double crime ard dsya'cbed two uuSty
10 follow the eli Dln,ls up 1hess facts we pup
sh before bot uce toey we're laid heiere our read
sIs we have hsa othiDg CT the dreadful case. Boi
the mystery Is now solved. Read:
From The ST. Jo,eph Gazette. Oct %.
Our city was thrown ibto considerable excitement
Yesterday by the arrival Of two kidn@pPsra under ar
rest and qua ded by citizens OF tbs county; Inc par
culsrs 60 far ~ we gather them abb 1t a. TO-
lowe: TIE kidnepteTs, named Il lton and Goodwin,
into the lower part OF the county lew Gays az
and statsd that hey bad four regroes Which they DE-
sire 10 eel. Thy succeeded in efeccg sale, but
before he money wss paid one OF the negroes,
Mary Boyd Informed ReDtl' man al they all bad beea
dnaI ped ia GalsDa IlinOs aud int one OF the nnm
Der man had been killed sfer crossing le Mis5isse p
ui River because be woulO not submit to be ioned.
This information led TO the arrest OF the kdaapp7Ts
and they are now il jail in this city iog In- arrival
Of psIsons from G.lena 10 deDufy The uegroes. Tue
wouaD Mary DOy0. at tDe Iims OF beng kiddsppsd
he "A NJ ph
GooSsp VINO lives With Mr. Wiglry, an attorney AZ
law IN Gsena sId jhs child ~as brought here with the
tegroee and passed off here as Mary Boyd offspring
Derry BOYD was the Of the negro who was ki 81
~ has brother living il s.. Louis named ThOm4s
Boyd. Mary Boyd was the property OF a man
NAMED VanoeveDier, clothing merchant 10 St. Louie
Goodwin is Canadian aid stranger IN tbei parts
Bolton maIr!edin his county. aud hyes III Caldwell
County. They were arrested by tue slave-Owners TO
whom they attempted to sell the kidnapped negroes.
A few DAYS ago, the Mu.cstin@ Iowa papers con
tanned an account Ct negro having been murdered
near that ulace AID the citizens offered reward OF
81 GOO for the arrest of the murderers. 1t is not i'm
probable thst the murdered man WAS Jerry Boyd.
The Mayor Of Galena was teleerspbed to yes erday,
and Request made that some one who could idao-
tiff, the negroes be cent here 10 testify sgant the KID
uapuers If Bolton and bod win have been gully OF
the crimfs charged upon theu they should aud Will
suffer the extreme penalty Of the law. we learn thai
it Was With diff uy the citizens OF this county could
be prevented from executing summary punishment
upoD the prisoreIs when the above rsl.ed be-
came known. Trey viii probably be sent TO Iowa Tor
triad for the murder Of Jerry Boyd
From The Galeaa Courier 245.
The gentleman VINO left mere d fe~ days ago IN pur-
snit Of the two Negroes who had been kidnapped
from this place sbot time since, returned this
morning. bringing win them the two negroes they
were Ia pursuit q, ano also a0Other whlnh h1 been
tdosppfd by the came persons some Elk weeks Deofe,
from Dubuque Iowa They were decoy ed away by q
man calling himself George Wilder, bat who was
properly nsmed John Good win, aud who was accom-
panied BY his fatuer-inla~ named Peer Il Bolton
both reai0euts of Cad veil COln Y, Missouri These
two men murdered Jerry Boyd. one of the kidnspped
negroes on the Both of Septeu Der issi, ner iowa City,
Iowa. These mn are respectfully CONNECTED 10 ba,
ohsnan County, Mo, about fourteen miles sou A 0,
toe Civ of S. Joseph. They we're both arrested
near St Joseph One of toem, Bolton, the hrst cap
tprrd was committed to Jail in $. Joseph u1der a
charge Of kidnapping 10 deieut OF S2OOO bail Ias
ott Ell Good wiz taken charge Of By the gentle men
from tbs CITY who brought him within forty miles OF
Hannibal Missouri their way to tDls plsos, VII sre
he sippeo bis iroLs and Jumped from the car wlodo
while The Train running at the rste OF thitTeen
miles al hour sud escaped.
About two months sgo they succeeded IN d'eoying
away woman from Dubuque, named Mary Baker,
and lately took from tins pla'e larry BOYD wis o;
Jerry Boy d. who wa mu. dered, and muls'to glri
about IA years Old the daughter OF !iored woman ID
this vicinity. When the gentleman from Gsiena ar
rived where these neg were ths bargain ~s tde,
aud the negro buyer was at ST. Jose N e. tuog the
money to ray for them. The price for them was
81 700 In The mean time tbs fact ,f the murder Of
JeJry BOYD cane out through Mary Boyd, hs wife,
and information was ssnt here Of the whereabouts OF
the negroes and tie men.
How Jerry BOYD was murdered is thus s'sted:
We understand Mrs. Boyd states Ia whsn the party
had travelled three d8ye out from g aena, they en-
csmped by night about sixteen miles from Iowa Clty
Here some movements ado by Good win aud Bolton
excited the susOicoDs Of Jerry tpat all was not rgot
arc be loaded his gun and revolver ia the presence OF
The kjduapptIs. The next morning Good sin and
8oton held q consultation Goodwin urging the
NECESSITY of getting rid f Jerry by killing him While
Jerry was sitting down lear the wagon, Good win
stspred up to him. saying, "Jerry, l an AFRAID Of
YOU and fred, first oou-g him 10 the breast, aqd
mn IN the head. The murder was committed III the
p-esence of Mira Boyd and the mula!to girl