Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1860-11-03
THE ANTI-SLAVERY BUGLF

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ty. The particulars so far as VIC can gather them
are about as follows Tho kidnappers, named Bol.
ton and Goodwin, came into the lower part Of the
county a few days ago, and stated that they had
four negroes which they desired TO sell. They
succeeded in effeoting u sale, but before the money
was paid over, one Of the negroes, Mary Boyd, in
formed a gentleman that they had all been kid
mapped in Galena, Illirois, and that one Of the
number, a man, had been murdered after crossing
the Mississippi river, because he would not sub
init to be ironod. This information led to the ar
rest OF the kidnappers, and they are now in Jail in
this city awaiting tho arrival Of persons from Ga
lena to identify the negroes. The woman was
nursing a child of a white woman named Susan
Goodlsp, who lives with Mr.. Wigley, an attorney
at law in Galena, 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 q brother living
in st. Louis, named Thomas Boyd. Mary Boyd
was once the property Of q man named Ysnde-
%venter, a clothing merchant in st. Louis.
Goodwin is a Can adian by birth, and a stranger
in these parts; Bolton married in this county and
lives in Caldwell county. They were arrested by
the slave owners to whom they attempted to sell
the kidnapped negroes.
A few days ago the Muscatine (Iowa) papers
contained an account Of a negro having been MUIR
deree near that place, and the citizens offered o
reward of S $1,000 for the arrest Of the murderers.
It is not improbable that the murdered man was
Jerry Boyd.
The Mayor of Galena was telegrSphed to yes
terday, and request made that some one who could
identify The negroes, be sent here to testify against
the kidnappers. If 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 is was with difficulty the cit
liens of this county could be prevented from exc
cutting summary punishment upon the prisoners,
when the facts, as above related, became known.
They will, probably, be sent to owa for trial, for
the murder Of Jerry Boyd.
Prom the Galena Courier, Path.
The gentlemen who left here q few days ago in
pursuit of the two negroes who had been kidnap-
ped from this place q short time since, returned
this morning, bringing with them the two negroes
they were in pursuit Of, and also another which
had been kidnapped by the same persons some six
weeks before, from Dubuque, Iowa. They were
decoyed away by a man calling 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 Cald-
we'll county, Missouri. These two men murdered
Jerry Boyd, one of the kidnapped negroes, on the
30th OF September last, near Iowa city, Iowa. Tho
men are respectfully connected in Buchanan coun-
ty, Missouri, about fourteen miles south Of the
city of st. Joseph. One of them, Bolton, the first
captured, vas committed to jail, in st, Joseph, on
the charge of kidnapping, in default of $1,000
bail. The other, Goodwin, vas taken charge of
by the gentlemen from this city, who brought him
within forty miles of Hannibal, Missouri, en- their
way to this place, when he slipped his irons, and
Jumped from the car window while the train was
running at the rHte of thirteen miles an hour AND
escaped.
About two months ago they succeeded in decoy-
ing away a woman from Dubuque, named Mary
Baker, and lately took from this place Mary Boyd,
wife Of Jerry Boyd, who was murdered, and a
mulatto girl about IA years old, the daughter of a
colored woman in this vicinity. When the gem
tleman from Galena arrived where the negroes
were, the bargain was made, and the negro buyer
was at st. Joseph getting the money to ipay for
them. The price for them was 81, 700. In the
meantime the fact of the murder of Jerry Boyd
came out through Mary Boyd, his wife. and infor.
nation was sent here of the whereabouts Of the
negroes and the men
How Jerry Boyd was murdered is thus stated
We understand Mrs, Boyd states that when the
party had travelled three days out from Galena,
they encamped by night some sixteen miles from
Iowa City. Here some movements made by Good.
win and Bolton excited the suspicious of Jerry
that all was not right, and he loaded his gun and
revolver in the presence Of the kidnappers. The
next morning Goodwin and Bolton held q consul
%tation, Goodwin urging the necessity Of getting
rid of Jerry by killing him.. While Jerry was sit
ting down near the wagon, Goodwin stepped Up tc
him saying, Jerry, l am afraid of you and fired
first shooting him in the breast and then in TIT
head. The murder was committed in the presence
Of Mrs. Boyd and the mulatto girl.