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io ascend\y goi histhe holeInf*!© IVlIJo Ui tun uirppiu^ *“^7 ujcuj-selves xere attempting to administer to ! courted(jettersfrom scn. the bailTTiuI al Springfieh!.divorce! Kentu^k-fiich stivedSfRiNCFiELD, May 30.— B. P. Churchill anddidthe chiv-his possr were brought vp this morning before Justice Christie.»hcand iltilike anIenbe 1Churchill and Llliot werQarraigned upon two the ladder I charges—one fo* assulting L^puty Sheriff Layton, and oue for assault with intent t* murder.They asked, through their CQsnsel, that the magistrate should fix the amount of hail for their j got: nnt up andj, fired upries inlare theretreated::ea out hino further!me kmhow thf appearance at the next term of the Common | VI1jri the cour* Pleas Court. The hail was then fued at $2,500each upon both charges.The balance of the party, fight in number,| were required to give hail to the amount of $10,1*00 for their appearance at the next term of.Court. Upon the defendants refusing to give ]irni him of; bail, the whole party were committed to the jailin this city, where they now lie.s loft,sent his*aiwe meLv tried to*she defiedord Soon1 ‘en tluFrom the Commercial of Friday Morning.4? ragniWhatlie quiie aThe bragand p*Iis ouruvac prop* I they hadhevin2Whataboutbefore Jurist* tlt;e:ivfftThe writ of habeas corpus, issued by JudgeLeavitt of the LT. S. District Court, orderingSheriff Lattov, of Clark County, to produce theprisoners (U. S. Deputy Marshals and assistants)who were recently concerned in the slave and ahcatch |q. I °l^*on*ttt hunt in the neighborhood of Springfield, having been obeyed and the prisoners i don’t biought to this city on Saturday, as was stated• 'Ws:- •#..:* ' 'V. 3.Sv jlt;'r ;f . ' Iff '.-”in the Commercial yesterday morning, the ex-een living «miuathn of the case took place before JudgeLeavitt yesterday The names nf the prisonersare R. P. Churchill and J. 0. Flliot, of Cincinnati, J. M Trader, of Davton. John Poff-nher* ger, of Urbana. and Samuel Garvey, of Piqna,lclu led to | Deputy U S. Marshals and assistants John Bunker. Jacob Starr and James Dwell, Cincinnati.in douoleg i n wwo rd* months.»emg unafunds. -poi.nlold hecan mbn r. k rienough towho wereandcan ftKeefers of Hamilton,arulT. D. Cent-j livingnine tunetoo. It im.ly of Dtvton.The Attorneys employed in the case were , Messrs. John O’Neil, U. S District Attorneymg a i♦ r« totefeppted.encoutheir cand George F. Pugh, Rsq , for the U. S. Marshall. who sued out the habeas corpus to release “ his deputies, and Messrs. Rodney Mason and j i:fJamesS. Good. B«q , ou behalf of the Sheriff,] ' * ebe ended i whose return was read.its.ters after mcion a itthe U. S.four men.ft detailed the arrest of the prisoners underwrit issued by Squire Christy, their liberation on, bail and subsequent re-arrest on other charges, and another writ. Asking the ref urn of the writniatmithat e rtion ojia ndIuge,%*►aniing in1 on Iasiand protesting against going behind a State writ, good upon Its face, the return detailed the circumstances of the service of the habeas corpus Issued by the Judge Baldwin, and stated that when he fthe sheriff; told the prisoners that he I, of Cin-1 was sheriff of the county of Clark and had inhis possession a writ of habeas corpus for the four persons they were oaf tying off, one of the prisoners «-espQttqed “stop, or I'll shoot yon That Mr Compton, v*ho was assisting the sheriff. was fired at three times, and that seven orPniftast ronohas decpre»encaft hovend s»H;tedThelication a*1tide inChase.issued h (Court of *ke prisoners, jumping out of tlieir wag- ' ,1 on, assaulted and beat the sheriff and Compton I ‘ ff VPr* hadly.and to their reinonstr. nee only repli-w hen II 01 ed by violent and profane abuse. That alter be-and over* j ing struck with a pistol a,d subsequently by amurderous instrument called a colt, on the tomCraw fouiij mi*prisonerIf weenemtecounty, refused toound thatpllt;‘ until insane, he (the sheiiff) wu* kicked and beaten’very sorely.sorrowtilitySome witnesses were examined, but the case] ” ~ * v « j uu i tnvj v a»r #io Up it 0 was fisally adjourned till Wednesday next, the1 ,Saud ’he) |0th. It is probable that tho prisouers will oe ’end to bensse, thet to seivedischarged by Judge Leavitt, but this will not ! onpardcprevent their indictment by the Grand Jurv ofpring6o!driflf Lay-Clark County, and their arrest for trial.On tlTlie XortliaiMl tlie South.]f t, Isa,
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Wilmington Clinton Republican
Wilmington, Ohio, US
Fri, Jun 05, 1857
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