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uauiligisr*, ui- vuv vi iug vivaiugill at house.Itlorc of the Mar© Catcherslcin oustrat io as.HostileWe published, a few days ago, an accountili Ir ctempt ontv” wher*and of NCOT'V ofrom the Urbana Citizen Gazette of an attempt“agitatioito capture a fugitive slave, and the repulse of likely to the U. S. officer making the effort. The matterseems not to have ended there. The followingsequel to the affair is from the last number ofthe above paper:avoid suelife.The sChariest*;On Monday night last,Marshall I Auti-SlaChurchill, of lt;'inciuuati, with his posse, arrivedhere on the 101 .C o’clock train, with the view,r 4*mcnt,” inour actioiaccuracywill “ hoas was supposed, of arresting Addison, the fugitive. They remained here until W eduesd iymorning, when, in company with Deputy Marshall Puffin burger, and other recruits picked up i se* tt) 0ihere, they went, over to Mechanicsburg. Sev-|eral da\s b»foie their arrival, Addison had leftslavery thfor Canada, and has no doubt ere this reached the promised land, in Queen Victoria’s dominions.These Deputy Marshalls, it appears, were determined to arrest somebody : and well kuow-Wing that the fugitive Addison was more than a match for them, thev had writs for the arrest ofprinciplecont roverfor the ccWe on5ful to oufive or six citizens of Meehauicsburg, who were suspieioned of aiding Addison m his escape.Not suspecting anything of this kind, the people of the burg v. ere taken by surprise, when four of their citizens were suddenly airested andineuts.wcarried off from their homes, by these official* *- m Mi/ dignitaries. The persons thus arrested, were two respectable gentlen eu by the name of Tay-lor, Hiram Guthi ulge, and young Hyde, son ofthe man at whose cabin Addison bad so noblydefended himself in the first attempt to arresthim.to Sou tinright aucFrom thaigovernnufathers, :c v r*itlt;avowed,These proceedin gs, o! course, caused great ex- ! ..- frustratecitemeut, and not feeling disposed to resist the Government officers, citizens of the burg came to I vbana and sued out a writ of habeas corpus before Judge Baldwin, and Sheriff Clark and his posse went m pursuit. This was about noon on Wednesday. From one of Sheriff Clark’sthe goveenee to tas it doepopulaliparty., who returned in the evening, we learned that they had got on the track of the official abductors, who were making for South Charleston ou the Columbus and Xenia Road.the iutecountrymatter tThis posse was joined by Sheriff Layton, ofClark County, in company with Senator Brand,Price Morris, of Champaign county; and Wm.and conwe of tlsa\Cumptou, of Springfield. 4 The Springfield 7?/and forepublic gives the following particulars of a collis-choice,ion between this party and the kidnappers:be) battSlaver11 lie Sheriff, Layton, and Compton, being in advance, came up with the kidnappers a short distance from South Charleston, and in attemp-ing to serve the writ of habeas corpus, a rencontre ensued. 1 he Churchill party resisted thesheriff, k ocked him down with a colt, and several shots weie exchanged. Mr. Brand was soon on the alert, and raised a posse at Charleston to pursue in wagons and carriages, and Ich. Corwin and others, who afterwards arrived, prepared to pursue by the first train southward on the Columbus and Xenia Railroad.diction.X KGRhas marifrage uout theunanimThe very latest iutelligoncedrom the scene ofof part iBuchanaction, is u,e following from the SpringfieldKonparciJ,of Thursday :Sheriff Bay ton arrived in town this forenoon. - He is seriously,though not dangerously, injured.Churchill and hts party were attacked at Jamestown, and one of them was shot, but not killed. The assailants were prepnr ing for another attack.It is not probable that Mr. Churchill will succeed in taking las piisoners to Cincinnati.Honors and Rewards.—A little more thantwo years since, the rood wiftVlftQ 51 Vi (1 i rw 11 t rIn hi*! I*1»«thatduty ofin%is as tnhabit an residennativitynk
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Sandusky Daily Commercial Register
Sandusky, Ohio, US
Sat, May 30, 1857
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