New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1862-03-05
sLAyE-CATCUING IN WASHINGTON.

rprr cor rrn WOMAN SEIZED As A SLAVE
the Jvoshington Repubiscon .rubh'hes G T',;a
mentary evidence bearing upon me care ~ r"s,aJ
Blackwell free colored woman, VINO wns
in Washington last week as u tEi'e' i"'
Ii the qrl's statement: IT.. n, o,.,ocl
"Niy name il julia Blackwell. Aoout - o c.o'A
ON Tuesday niot l was gong on an eI'""u 70 "
grocery store had got but SNORT us'u'o0 i'o 80
DIR. NcConpelrs door, when two men came UP ~
NO ono of whom caught bold % me- anu stooh lu',
,i,.otoire, e made noise 10 choke me 10 death.
rio r,en ,,as The same one whom you meaning ,he
rerorir- .aw with me IN tie oilcc lWtlch Wa
KcCsel 4 Just;ca Dom. He SAID hat ne war gong
to'ake ne 10 iail; that 'ras T""HNoy s'0f'' l
i,gqn focrv. and toid tm HGt trdS a tLet '70'H9"'
L,,o,D, I'm, ali tie rtiL IL tt me ga. lie curfe1
and svore AT me, and again Threatened % strans lie
me If made a noise. then stopped crying.
Both of the men were together. was thcn
taken - Il gsises Office Tor az first supposed,
from seeing barn at the window 10 the guard.holse)
They PM me IN back room, ard keese asked me
where wan born, where my parents hved, ana II
VISA free woman. | told him that was free. lie
llIeesel then said it was lie, that he Knew my
master and that be had sold nv bIo her Daniel. l
AGAIN began 10 cry aud begged him for Goo SAKE
to iet me 90. He thea gave me Blble and told NE
that a. Uouh srcar that ] 6coS STARE ne T0H'I
ST me- free 0H1 i~0ukd gre me mug fee papers.
Tfjsrd 10 Sre0r, caeR hc f0id me mat rama f"p'
H. 20 10 jdI. Several re ,icmen then came mo VIC
Office and asked HIM (keesel what was the mater
| saw Won meaning jlc reporter look mo tle
ROOM lie refused 70 let any come INTO The n&c
room Soon after tie gentlemen ,nd lel' the once
WIS teken, - ! supposed, 10 tne laii by 'he u,
men lie Reese spoke TO several men lnslde o;
! The iail. Tney asked me if was free aud "IeTe \
lived told them that was free ana lVeu VIZ
/ Dr. Mcconnell, on the avenue: one OF tne men =.
ibe iau said Il believe she tells The truth ana u
free pirI TIE man "'hO arrested me ihen toil ne
could 20 home for which THANKED hinl. Ohe OF
he offers went with me as far az Trinity NhurcIi,
and asked me if ] could then Ind my way home.
t.la lin could. aud ne left ne. J Was very muci
friQhtened. IL was near - clock when nAufheu
home. -, :. - 80,
The statement Of the cirl was made in our pre-
ence. II. +. Ilawlov, W. ii. Mitchell, Johh NJ
Johuson. VIM. p. Mcconnell, Frank Henry.
! A communication in The Republican, from I! res
rectal.le resident of Washington, says:
THE Girl who is free, was sent on sn efr@nd oy
tl, r..r.o,s with whom she lives and, ~ she was
refrlniup hone. was seized by this officer and taken
TO what she calls the guard.house from there TO me
,lao,sr,ltes Office, aud this officer kept alternately
cnrfing and threatening The girl TO get hert0 ~!
that ,le wac slave, tolliig her he knew Der las,
ter. Ter sitter. and others whom BE- dli not, ano
saving l, he only wanted her to swear that She was
a :! We and he Nould re-, Ter tree; and when Tie
Girl would not he told her that he world be ID Il
/ re would no; make her, &c The gal sieaoiy re-
fused aud t. THIS size owes her escape from JAIL az
the ius,ite woali not commit her, feeling odiishet
that the slr was free, which Size is, and has beei
Tor years.