Cleveland morning leader. [volume] (Cleveland [Ohio]) 1854-1865, 1860-10-29
KIDNAPPERs ARRESTED.
MURDERERS IN LIMBO.

also free, aged II 10 Ii, who hYeu IN Jerry
fmily; aud a white child who Mary took care
OF for q poor woman at service, were enticed
away from their home two or three weeks
ago by couple of strangers, upon the pre-
tence that the three oldest persons OF the pas
ty were TO have profitable and pleasant en-
ployment on farm and in hotel at Des
Moines, Iowa They were last seen in
johnson county of that State, in covered
wagon. going westward. A few days after
their departure from that county, the body Of
man was found by the roadside, near
where they were last seen, aud from
papers in his pocket it was plain that it
was the body of Boyd, and that be had been
murdered News of his death wert back to
his friends in Galena, and then Tor the first
time 81 suspicion that the party had been kid
mapped for sale into slavery, was excited;
that suspicion grew into a certainty 10y fur
ther developements; and the people who used
to see Boyd every day at his work earning
honest bread, ofer1d, though he was mu-
lat,o. a reward of FIVE hundred dollars for the
apprehension OF the villains who had com
mitted a dolble crime and dispatched two
trusty men to follow the criminals up. But
the mystery is now solved. Read
From the ST. Joseph Gazette, OCT. So
Our city was thrown into considerable ex-
element yesterday by the arrival Of two kid
nappers under arrest and guarded by citizens
of this county. The particulars so far as we
can ather them are about rs follows The
kidnappar;, named Bolton and Goodwin came
into tue lower part of the county a few days
ago, and stated that they haS four negroes
which they desired to sell. They succeeded
in effecting a sale, but before the money was
paid over, one OF the negroes, Mary Boyd, in
formed gentleman that they had all been
Kidnapped in Galena, Illinois, and that one OF
the number, man. had been murdered after
crossing the Mississippi river, because he
would not submit to be ironed. This intor-
nation led to the arrest Of the kidnappers,
anC they are now in Jail in this city awaiting
the arrival of persons from Galena to identi-
/ fy- he negroes. The woman was nursing
child of a white woman named Susan Good
| lap who lives with Mr.. Wigley, an attorney
| at law in Galena, and the child was brought
| here with the negroes, and passed oil here as
Mary Boyds offspring. Jerry Boyd was the
name of the negro who was killed, and has a
! brother living in st. Louis, named Thomas
| Boyd. Mary BOYD was once the property Of
/ a man named Vandevcnter, a clothing mer-
chant in ST. Louis
Goodwin is a Canadian by birth, and a
I 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. pa
pcrs contained an account Of a negro having
been murdered near that place, and the citl-
| rest Of the murderers. it is not improbable
/ that the murdered man was Jerry Boyd.
The Mayor OF Galena was telegTdphed to
yesterday, and request made that some one
| who could identity 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 it was with difficulty the citizens
! OF this county could be prevented from exc
cutting summary punishment upon the pris-
ouers, when the facts, as above related, be-
came known. They will, probably, be sent
/ to Iowa for trial, for the murder Of Jerry
Boyd.
I -Erom the Gslena Courier, sth..
The gentlemen who left here a few davs
! ago in pursuit. Of the two negroes who had
I been kidnapped from this place, short time
/ since, returned this morning, bringing with
them the two negroes they wercin 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 Wild
/ er, who was properly named John Goodwin,
and who was accompanied by his iather-in-
/ law, named Peter J. Bolton, both residents of
! Caldwell county, Missouri. These two men
murdered Jerry Boyd, one of the kidnapped
negroes, on the 30th of September last near
Iowa City, Iowa. The men are respectfully
connected in Buchanan county, Missouri,
shout fourteen miles south ofthe city OF StJo-
seph. One Of them, Bolton, the first captured,
was committed 10 jail, in St. Joseph, on the
charge Of kidnapping, in default Of $4,000
bail. The other, Goodwin, was taken charge
of by the gentlemen from this city, who
brought him within forty miles of Hannibal,
Z Missouri, on their way to this place. when
he slipped his irons, and jumped rom the Car
window while he train was running at the
nate of thirteen miles an hour, and escaped.
About two months ago they succeeded in
[ lecOying 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 Il
years old, the daughter of colored woman
in this vicinity. When the gentleman from
Galena arrived where the negroes were, the
bargain was made and the negro buyer was
at St. Joseph getting the money to pay for
them. Tie 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 information was sent here Of the where
abouts 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 ont from
Galena, they encamped by night some sixteen
miles from Iowa City Here some move
ments made by Goodwin 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 morn
ing Goodwin and Bolton held a consultation,
Goodwin urging the necessity Of getting rid
Of Jerry by killing him. While Jerry was
sitting down near the wagon, Goodwin step
ped mp to him saying, "Jerry, am afraid Of
you, and fred, first shooting him in the
breast and then in the head. The murder
was committed in the presence OF Mrs. Boyd