Randolph County journal. [volume] (Winchester, Randolph County, Ind.) 1855-1862, 1860-10-04
From the Cincinnati Gnzette.
TO CAPTURE
BHACkEN COUNTY SLAVES.
ExcrrEuES1 IL MoaRow COUNTY, O.
4 Deputy Marshal Bound and
Beaten.
General Disregard of Federal
Authority.


General Disregard of Federal
Authority.
During the latter part Of last May
three slave brothers, belonging to
Messrs. Reed & Pollock. near Ger
mantown, Ky. managed to make
their escape. and after some inquiry,
it was ascertained that they had
located near iberia, Morrow county.
in this State. Messrs. Reed & Poll
lock came to Cincinnati and caused
warrants to be issued for the appre-
henSion of the fugitiveS; and in the
early part Of last week the instruments
Of the law were placed in the hands OF
the United States Marshal for the
Southern District Of Ohio for execn-.
ton. Early Tuesday morning, the
Marshal, aided by posse of eight or
ten special deputies, proceeded to full
I'll the task, and as the expedition
was one involving great personal
danger, the utmost precautions were
entered into. The negroes were
found to be stationed at three different
houses. and with hopes that each
might be simultaneously arrested, the
posse was divided into three parties.
and each given n house to surround
and negro to each, with instructions
where to rendezvous, should the trial
prove either successful or failure.
The farm houses Mt which the negroes
were living are all in the vicinity Of
Iberia. but the third from the first ia
over mile distant. IL was dark
when the parties started on their
miSsion--thrcc TO the first house, four
10 the second. and three TO the third.
the latter being headed by the
Marshal.
This latter party succeeded in se.zing
the negro at the third house, and Wy
taking circui;ous route. reached u
railroad station some sixteen miles
below Iberia. They had walked the
whole distance through drenching
rain. and were cold and tired enough
when they reached that harbor of rest
and safety. They took freight train
COR Columbus. and from thence came
to this city. arriving here Friday
evening. That night mn examination
was had before Commissioners New
hall. and the usual ceremonies having
been gone through with he was re.
mandcd into the custoday of the
claimant, and taken over into
Kentucky.
This part of the undertaking was
all adroitly concealed aud carried out.
but the deputies were not so successful
as their chief. Those who were
detailed at house No. /. when they
entered, TO nj that the negro had fled.
As they left the house they met eight
men--six whites and two negroes
armed. who asked them where they
had been. to which they replied that
they were railroad men and were
going to the depot. AS they carried
colorcd lantern their reply was
plausible enough. They went and
concealed themselves.
As the four men composing the
posse No. 2 went to the house sci
apart to them, they also found their
negro absent, and were laughed at by
two women who were quietly smoking
their pipes. When they went ou
they met number of men, one o
whom. resembling the sought fol
slave, they seized hold of. a struggle
then commenced. during which one o
the slave-catchers shot off the righ
hand fingers of negro, and also sho
white man in the groin. 1t i
feared that this last shot proved fatal
but nothing definite is known by on
Marshal's posse. The firing laste,
about five minutes. The ve-catcher
concealed themselves as well as the,
could. Three of them-two of poss
number one and one of posse numbe
two--arrived at the rendezvous at TIL
same time, and being courageou
fellows, resolved to so back and hell
their friends. As they neared tn
place one of them laid down in a fenc
corner, while the other two, being les
discreet, went on. They were seize'
by party of about twenty armed men
their revolvers and money taken from
them, and their clothes torn nearl
from their backs. The mob got
rope, intending to hang them. but no
succeeding well in that. they dre'
themselves up into platform, an
leveling their rifles at the prisoner.
threatened TO shoot them. This wa
prevented by some citizens. The
then procured pair of scissors an
cut the hair of the men close to the
sclaps. la Heenan, and then turnin
them free. set upon them with clul
5 and beat them out of the neighbo
! hood.
: The slavecatchers had sorry tin
Of it in the rain that dark night, bV
. they eventually succeeded in gettin
aboard the cars and reaching the
: respective homes, the victims of sO
} experience.
: Some of our citizens supposed fro
} the floating stories that Deputy Unite
/. States Marshal Manson, was one
| the persons whose head was shave
: but such is not the case. The tv
: slavecatchers who were so unfortunat
, are not residents of Cincinnati. b
| another portion of Ohio. We unde