Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1861-01-23
Wednesday Morning, Jan. %. 1851.
RzIy-TuE FuoirlvE SLAVE LUoY-Wm-

L.
S. GOshorn, the owner of the fugitive
slave girl, Lucy, recently arrested at
Cleveland, Ohio, returned from that CITY
yesterday morning, with view VIC believe.
ofprocuring evidence to refute a statement
made by the girl that she had been taken
into Ohio by daughter of the claimant
with the knowledge and consent Of her
mister.
From the Cleveland papers we CLEAN
some partic ul6rs of the arrest of the girl
from which itappears that she went 10
Cleveland about three months ago, shortly
after leaving here. A great effort was
made to ascertain her whereabouts. but in
vain Recently, it is said, information
was given to her master by n negro wo-
man in Cleveland, and she was accordingly
arrested on Saturday morning last, by Tile
L. S Marshall, at the house of n Mr.. BEN
ton, and committed to Jail. Judge Tilden
afterwards issued IL writ of habeas corpus.
and when this WIS known. says the re-.
ports, sit was currently as, erted that Lucy
would be rescued by negro force large
enough to overpower the Sherif-s posse.
and spirited away before n recapturc could
be made. The officers were aware ofthis
and Sheriff Crnw aud his. Deputies acted
accordingly. A detachment Of city police
took possession ofNnd cleared the Jail yard,
keeping the crowd in font of the Court
House. Various rumors were prevalent, and
strict watch was kept to prevent her reno
val secretly. No such disposition has thus
far been manifested by theauthorities. The
excitement was almost entirely confined
to the colored population, for though there
was large number of white people on
the ground, the universal sentiment was
that the affair must be left to the law"
AS the time approached when, it
was supposed, the girl was to be taken from
the jail and carried before Judge Tilden,
the crowd increased in size and grew more
boisterous in demonstration. AS the ex-
cited negroes gained new accession, how
ever, those who were there to see the law
enforced increased in number and deter
minatiou. The negroes threatened boldly
that the girl should never go back to Yir-
ginia alive, and some were evidently pre-
pared for fight.
Under these circumstances it was not
deemed prudent to take the girl from jail,
and the hearing therefore proceeded with
out her presence.
Judge Tildcn asked Sheriff Craw If he
had council, and the officer responded that
he did not deem it necessary, after making
his return upon the writ. Judge T. then
said, in view Of the Importance of the case,
he desired to take time to consider it. It
was snid the city of Cleveland was disloy-
al the Union, but be knew it was SLAM
der, and the forbenrnnce exercised to day
proved it. He cautioned the colored peo-
pie against any act of violence, and then
announced that he should hold the case for
advisemeut until Monday Mt 8 A. NJ.
The Judge charged the Sheriff that the
prisoner was in his custody, and he should
hold her.
On Monday as already reported by tcle-
graph Judge Tilden, ordered the girl to be
discharged from the custody of the Sheriff,
and was taken to the o. S. Court where ut
la,taccounts sue was undergoing an exam
ination.
1t will be established that the girl es-
capped, aud was not taken away as alleged,
when she will be promptly returned to her
master. The PtdiHdsater says that seven
the negroes held meeting on Monday and
resolved to obey the laws"