Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1904-03-10

check in Cincinnati after the fugi-
tives were housed safely, and OBJ
tanning the trunk. BY these
means alone twenty seven slaves
obtained their freedom during
one spring and summer. They
were sent to Canada where
many of them had relatives, who
had escaped before them. Es-
Gaping detection in all the cases
in which he was implicated,
Jones was finally arrested in a
case where he was entirely inno-
cent, tried and convicted on false
evidence. Aiding a fugitive
slave was at that time a grave
offence, and he was sentenced to
three years in the penitentiary.
On account of some flaw in the
evidence or illegality in the pro-
ceedings his lawyers obtained a
new trial. He was again found
guilty by another jury but his
sentence this time was lessened
to two years.
| Some new witnesses having
been discovered whose evidence
it was thought would prove his
innocence a petition was made
for third trial and granted.
His bail bond was one thousand
five hundred but he could not
reach that amount. He was a
weakly man and during the win
ter he became very i'll and his
physicians thought that he could
not survive long unless he could
go home and be properly nursed.
Finally his bond was reduced to
one thousand dollars but it was
not expected he should have
many friends in state where
aiding slaves to escape to free
dom was considered worse than
horse stealing. So all the money
that his wife and daughter could
raise was a little less than 5000
toward indemnifying prominent
citizen who offered to sign his
bond if the money was placed in
the bank for him if Jones did not
appear. So Levi Coffin was writ
ten to and the letter found him
| without any ready money on
hand, but he in turn wrote to
Thomas Wistar of Philadelphia,
| a friend, and he secured all the
balance of the money except so
or 100 dollars which Coffin made
up and knowing that what was
done for Jones must be done
quickly. The question was how
to get the money to Louisville.
The means were not there as
now for sending money and so
Coffin took the money and at
tempted to cross the river to ap-
ply it and in so doing came with
in very little of losing his life,
so treacherous was the ice on the
river, but he reached the place
and deposited the money; but it
was thought best for Jones to
forfeit the bond which he did
knowing he could not get justice
in Kentucky. Several of the
abolitionists knew he was inno-
cent of this accusation but guilty
of aiding slaves in many other
cases. So when Jones had for
feited his bond, remained in
Cincinnati where he had gone
and the governor of Kentucky
sent requsition to the governor
of Ohio for Jones' delivery, but
as the Lord would have it Soil
mon p. Chase was governor of
Ohio at that time and they could
not work the scheme on that old
abolitionist. / believe | have
heard of scheme of that kind
by the present governor of Ken
lucky trying to get Governor
Durben of Indiana to give uI
one Taylor, but the Hoosier gov
ernor isn't built that way. AT
ter several years, that is after
the war this same Jones, (but
that was not his real name,
could tell it but / don't want to,
this same Jones or whatever his
name was, entered the Electric
Medical College of Cincinnati a
student and there the writer
saw him in 1870. He was a
bright as dollar ank took t,
medicine rapidly; earned his di
ploma and become prominen
physician among the best famil
les of the city. 1t is said yor
cannot keep man down and es
pecially one who wants to gre
up and so in this case Jone
wanted to get up and see ever
one else elevated whether blacl