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as black-guard.
HARTSHORNE.
DETAILED ACCOUNT OF TIE Alb.
DUCTION OF DIR. BRATT0N.
Tho London (Canada) Free Press,
of the 18th instant, brings US the full
details of the trial of ]. B. Cornwall
for the forciblc abduction Of DR.. Brat.
ton, of South Carolina. We present
in condensed form the most interest.
ing portions Of the evidence.
Dr.. James Rufus Bratton deposed
that on the afternoon in question he
was walking out on Waterloo street.
He saw cab standing in the distance,
and three men two of them were
standing in the road, and the other
was seated on the box; as he walked
on the two men separated, one going,
ths other coming towards him; the
latter he recognizes as Cornwall.
When within about six feet Of him
Cornwall sprang towards him and
seized him in rude and violent man.
ner by the arm and shoulder, telling
him he arrested him under a warrant,
Hc (Bratton) demanded to hear the
warrant read, and desired his assailant
to show cause why he should be
arrested. Cornwall returned that he
would do that soon enough. Witness
resisted and still demanded to know
tho reason of his arrest, but received
no satisfaction beyond being told that
he would find out soon enough. A
struggle ensued, in the course of
which both of them fell to the ground
Cornwall knelt on his body and arms
and proceeded to put manacles on
him. He called the cabman to help
him. After some further struggling,
the cabman came to Cornwalls assist.
ance and held witness arm. The
handouts were then placed upon his
(Bratton's) wrists, and he was led
between tho two men, Corn wall on
the right and the cabman on the left,
to the cab, into which he Was pushed.
Cornwall gave orders to drive to the
station by the back streets. Witness
asked that they should drive around
by his boarding house to get some of
his clothes, but this was refused.
While on the way, witness repeatedly
protested against the degradation Of
the irons upon his person, and de-
manded to know the authority upon
which Cornwall proceeded. Cornwall
told him to keep quiet, and not create
any outcry, lest ho should expose
himself with the handouts upon him.
Witness returned that be did not fear
to be taken before any magistrate or
commissioner for examination, but
objected to the humiliation of the
irons. Upon again demanding to hear
the warrant read, still protesting
against the arrest, and telling Corn
wall that it was not law, but force
and violence, Cornwall read a warrant
in his hearing. lie (witness) then
said tho warrant did not embrace his
name; did not call for him, and offer
ed no legal pretence whatever for his
arrest. Cornwall then said that it
was not his province to discriminate
between persons; he (Bratton) would
have to 60 to Windsor, where he
would havo o chance to vindicate
himself before Mr.. Commissioner Ca
ron, by whom the warrant was signed.
Witness objected to 60 to Windsor,
saying he was prepared to submit
to any authority of this city:
and he thought that in place Of
twenty thousand inhabitants there
should be some authority competent
to deal with him. He was told that
Mr.. Caron was the only commissioner
or this district, and that he would
nave to 60 before him. He could
also get good legal advice in Windsor
When the cab arrived at the station
t stopped, and tho driver said the
rain Pacific Exprcss) was late.
They then drove up and down one Of
he back streets until the train ar.
lived. Then the cab was stopped.
Cornwall then took witness to the
Pullman car and thrust him in the
Interior part of it, into a small apart
ncnt with ono or two seats. Corn
vail said we ought to get to Windsor
" ten o'clock; no one except the
,orter came into the compartment
Until we arrived at Detroit; did
lot hear Windsor announced from
he train either by the conductor or
when the conductor called
Detroit he could not got in, and Corn
vail opened the door for him; so
oon as the door was opened, Hester,
he detective, stepped in and said,
You 60 with me now;' I replied to
lester, when he said he wished me
0 60 with him, "No, I'm under Ca
adian law, now; that warrant does
ot allow you to detain me here, and
, under protest, refuse to obey you ;
either your government, or you, sir,
ave right to detain me here, and
you do, you will pay for it,"
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