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esa-er,e_ Alleged Attempt to Kidnap. 'On Wednesday week, ft colored girl ' •as of this place, mado oath before Esq.'-do Bringmnn, that an attempt to kidnap'( is Lor had been mado tlie preceding oven-' I ,ia big. She stated that she had been on-1 1 ,0_ gaged in washing at Joseph Tuckoy's , l0 during tho alternoon, and was detained .. :ct for her pay until somewhere in tho11 •‘- neighborhood of 8 o’clock in tho oven-!1 lc ing, when in crossing the alloy in thci1 l1(l rcal' °f his residence, she was seized by : j two persons, and nr, attempt made to jo place hor ill a two-horse earriago which ' a stood near by. Possessing more than 1 ordinary muscular power, she success- } fully resisted thorn, and the parties.' |, after a struggle, being alarmed by her a cries, mado limit* escape, and the car- 0 riagc was driven off. She implicated 11 ii- Joseph Tuckcy, Philip Snvdcr and' )j ‘•e Ferdinand Buckingham, for whom war-1 s | rants wore at once issued, and tiic lat- v tor was arrested—the other two having i * taken th cir leave. On Saturday even-! h ,n big, 3Ir. Buckingham was taken before j „ is Judge ZiEOLtK on Habeas Corpus, and w 'c discharged—the Counsel for tho Com- i tl {» monwealtli, under tlie evidence offered !„ by the defendant to prove an \Uibi, ac- j C1 Sj j coding to his discharge, if. The affair caused considerable excite-. r mont amongst tlie colored population, | and suspecting Jacob Jones, one of; their own color, for having some hand ! in it, he was attacked on Thursday j evening, on Breckinridge street-, liy I several colored woman and children,! and received a rather severe drubbin lie was relieved by a police officer.Om; day la.it week, Jones went before ■ Esq. Fuhveiler, in ifumrnasbmg, and mado oath against ililly iiagea andor other colored “ sistern,” for assault and |Ij battery. M.lly and her friends, upon '| bearing tho fact, wlt;5nt beforo Esq. i *j Arnold, in this place, and gave the re-, fquircd bail, and then got* a wariant for j Jones, for an alleged attempt to kid-1 s nap two of Milly’is children. Jones,1 ijnot having as good luck as Milly in r -[ getting security, was compelled to take up quarters under Sheriff Eightticr.
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Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, US
Mon, Feb 15, 1858
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