Burlington free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1827-1865, 1860-04-13

| your warrant" repeated I. eve have a war;
ant" said some one, for by this time two NOR
men appeared "Show tread it." said I.
small man, calling himself Freeman. afterwards
Tor none would give their names, began to read &
paper, but had got only through few lines, wh e.
the gray haired rufian took pair of handouts
from his pocket and proceeded to put them on my
wrists, standing in my own house, without a ha
or boots, only in slippers of cloth.
A whistle was given; some men rushed in. nonC
OF them known to me, andcarried by force tC
the street, where stood carriage with two horses
They lifted me from the ground and tried to put
me In the carriage. l resisted with my feet, fol
| my hands were fast in the manaces They tried
two or three times without 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 ruffans and prevented
| them from carryingsme off,
stood In the street in my slippers haitian hour
wearing the handouts, until Deputy Sheriff Moore
took me by force from the rufians hands under
writ of habeas corpus, issued by Judge Hoar
Their names, giving after a long time and re-
luctantly, were Silas Carlton,- Coolidge, -
larleton, and - Freeman. There were two
three others, whose names have not learned.
fltteen minutes after | was handcuffed, stand
ing IN the street. Freeman read me warrant
signed by Wee President Breckenridge for my ar
rest, with an endorsement from McNair, Sergeant.
authorizing
Carlton to seize me. How he did it have said.
People of Massachusetts,, act as it seems to you
best, in this case
F.B. sAxBoRy.
Mr.. Sanborn also gives the following addi-
tional particulars Of his arrest
Earlier in the evening ono of these men had Wis
tied my house, and finding the door unlocked had
gone IN, and being met by the servant, toll her
that he bad an important paper for me- and as she
understood him it was something about a situa-
tion was out at the time and was told of it
when | returned.
How long the rutfans had been looking about
town | don't know, but informed that thr- had
been here some hours probably w3tchincmv foot
steps, In which honorable employment they were
aided, as am told and believe, by Joseph Hol- /
brook, sometimes called Colonel Holbrook. an Off
'er IN the Boston Custom House resi3iug here /
md Charles 3. Davis, Pos master Of this town /
these neigAbors Of mine, with one of whom for /
nerly boarded, have, as I believe assisted in
committing this outrage. Some weeks ago. the
'erson calling himself Carleton was here as spy,
md made his headquarters at the post office.
l at first offered no resistance but when the
and-;u7s were put on refused to 90, not having
eard any warrant, or seen any signatures or been
Old the names Of the officers or the nature Of nv
fence, so far as l recollect When they
ragged me into the open air, without allowing
ne 70 put on my boots, overcoat or hat, | ca led
Murder and resisted with my feet as well as [
ouId with four stout men holding me. They
ragged me TO the carriage, which had been brought
P by fifth or sixth confederate, and attempted
D put me IN. | hroke the side Of the carriage
18th my feet and my sister seizug one Of the ruff
ans, they dropped me on my feet again.
Again they tried TO put me In, but my sister
hlpped the horses, who started. and foiled them .
gam. They were still strugg ing with me and
iF-hVe men against a man and a woman-when d
c nelghbors came running o. my aid The ruff Z
ms stlll attempted to kidnap me- but they soon {
una they were Cverpowered Then, and not till
en-, did they read their warrant in the street bv
c light of lantern while I stood handcuifed t
ID half clothed in their hands This must have :
en- fifteen minutes after my first seizure. s
After a hearing on the writ tot hq5e4s corpus b
e supreme Court Of Massachusetts, decided n
at the Sergeant-at-arms Of the Senate had o
authority, by his warrant, to delegate his b
thority to deputies, and that the arrest f
Is illegal b
The Boston Deputies of the L. s Senate's i
rgeant-at-arms, who attempted to arrest Il
nborn, were themselves arrested in turn. ri
peared before Justice Bail, at Concord. on t.
iday, and waving an examination on the n
arges of assault and attempt to kidnap. ~ y
re held in $4,000 each for trial at the il
zt term Of the Superior Court at Concord. 81
MIR. Sinborn was arrested for an assault on {,
2 officers, in resisting their arrest, and was NJ
ID to bail for trial at the same Court, IA
lph Waldo Emerson, and other prominent =
liens being his bail. th
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