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SliCCESSFLened tbut yctterdar forenoon about the aThree Faglilre jilarrsSent back to Smitad* (Ton (hleag*.THE PRICE OF RCOO PJID OVER.Excitement amoij r Cittzeis.HETECTIVE NOTES cure $3,300Jftpde. of Capture of the Pn|Htw«.« ! Their Hendltlon to their Muter*. Floggine on Blood j liltnd, Ac., Ac.Incidents of Tuesday Negro Jenithe ColoredAnother Kidnapper -Arrested hastNoyes, Smith, Tomer, and the boy Oertman, the colored man was taken into custody by depuly Sheriff Anderson, and as a precautionary measure for himself, locked op though almost immediately detained to answer the ends of justice. fSmith and Oertman were also arrested, while Xoyes who had been seen about town; and Indeed had conversed with some' of our leading as late as 10 A. M., was unfortunately and shamefully allowed to elude capture, carrying with him the $2,800. We believe officers his track, however, that that entire sum will not buy off from taking him if possible.The parties arrested were brought before Judge Milliken yesterday morning, and re-committed for examination yesterday afternoon at o’clock.At that hour, there was a kr^s attendance of citizens, both colored and white, many cf the latter indeed hanging about the Court House throughout the day. The Police Court Room the third story was fully packed at the hour named, and the most intense feelmg manifested rhen the negro Turner was brought In. ’ There' When our paper went to press on Tuesday evening we referred, in a brief article in our city column, to an exeiicm eat prevailing among our colored citizens relative to the rumored recent rendition of three fugitive slaves from the State of Missouri into the custody of their masters. It was first promulgated on Tuesday evening among the colored residents, accompanied by the exciting hint that a young colored nian, named William Turner, a resident of this city, had been the tool and decoy of the captors, and the cause of their return to servitude..Instead of turning to the precedent of Si. Paul te. Onesimus,' and finding the consolation which it brings to many minds, the colored recipients of this information iu question took fire instantly and forgot the apostle. Turner was immediately advised of his danger by some of his personal friends. He had been drinking at a saloon on South Clark street and was in a most pot-valiaat mood, which, fortunately for himself, however, did not bold out against the solicits- . tions of his friends, one of them a colored man named Perkins, who finally persuaded him that the lockup would bo his safest lodging for the , night, and accordingly as we stated in our last , issue Turner, was put in the cells by the City Marshal for the safe keeping which came none too soon for him. 'The colored men, disappointed in finding Tor* ; ncr, seized upon Perkins whose interference ( baulked them of their revenge, and he was roughly handled, though not as severely as was rumored yesterday, for it was among the rumors of the street that bebad been taken to the lake shore where he received three hundred lashes.It is said tbnt both Perkins and Turner have deserved the suspicions of their brethren by a twio'sbip in treachery to their color.Among the later events of that evening and yesterday morning were the startling developments that the white kidnappers in whose pay Turner had been, were ex-city detectives from this city, in whom the prehensile trait had gained such excess of development that they had turned from common criminal cases to a general willingness to catch anything and everything for pay. ^These wen are Charles Noyes, formerly in the city employ, and later of the late firm of C. IV Bradley k Co., and Charles W. Smith, a detects ire under the Went worth, and we think a former administration. They were aided by this colored man Turner, and a white boy, acting in the capacity of a biped terrier, named Charles Oertman, belonging. It is said, in St. Louis, and known as “ Sandy. - .It would appearthat some three weeks since three article* of personal property belonging to Capt. Frost, of St. Louis, committed a larceny, each of himself, bis body, and transferred that article belonging to Capt, Frost, to this city—in short ran stray, under their ignorant interpretation of that “ glittering generality** that “ all men are created free.’*They came to this city. Their names were 'Washington Anderson, James Anderson, his brother, and Henry Scott, their cousin. The latter has a brother in this city, and the three fugitives settled down here to reside. A reward of $2,500 was offered by Capt. Frost for the recovery of his property, his lively chattels. The reward was tebptiog and met and conquered the eyes and scruples of the detectives,: and they having ascertained the whereabouts of the runaways, laid their plans.Turner was then in the employ of Charles Noyes, and took care of his rooms, and the boy Oertman, who knew the fugitives by sight, was sent up from St. Louis. Through Turner, Noyes and Smith found access to the Anderson’s and Scott, and began their overtures. Sagacious detectives both, these plans were skillfully laid. Noyes was about to retire from city life, he was going to the country; be was in love with the fields, bad bought a farm iu the western port of the State, and these “boys” were just the men to whom be would entrust its culture. He was liberal in his offers of wages, and Smith was eloquent in expatiating on the charms of the life they would enjoy with Mr. Noyes.To make the thing work more smoothly, and there is a skill in this that leads ns Mr. Noyes, the colored men were taken the jf our agricultural stores. They were flattered In being consulted freely upon tools, seeds, Ac., each was allowed to select his implements, and they went in with a will and adjusted to their taste and to their brawny arms, forgetting they were the property of Capt. Frost, sundry hoes, and rakes, and axes and scythes, and grew vastly delighted at the confidence imposed In them by their generous employer. We would not have given much for the safety of these later followers of the Apostle to the Gentiles, could these modern Ontfimi, while with scythe and axe in band, bare suddenly read the beoificent intentions of Messrs. Noyes and Smith. But the plan too well conceived, and laden with farm implements and garden seeds, with the sweet pastorals of Charley Smith Hill ringing to the three colored men followed Noyes to his room, where Turner made them happy with congratulations and merry with ra feast, in fact quite transporting them, the while Smith and Noyes were busy at a transportation which should prove much more substantial In its : olized effect.An entire second-class car was chartered the Illinois Central Railroad through to St Louis for $150. Thi purchases wer Friday of last week, and that night the kidnappers took their victims on boor and went southward to complete their contract with Capt Frost So well had the thing executed, that but for the tell-tale telegraph, nothing would hare interfered; as it' came too late for the deeeircd fugitives.A private dispatch was received here on Mon day last, that three fugitive slaves from Chi-cago had been landed on Bloody Island, opposite St Louis. The intelligence caused inquiry to be instituted, and tbe friends here of these fugitives, who had missed them, flashed into excitement.A woman of color, a passenger over the St Louis and Chicago road yesterday, puts the finish to the story, by the statement that men, Andcrsoas and Scott, who were well known to her, were so landed on Blood;Monday, and that they were that night cruelly whipped. We suppose that Noyes and Smith would not hare hesitated to officiate with the “ cat” themselves; .and throw ini the “ flogging of the niggers” for Capt. Frost as a bonus.On Tuesday Noyes and Smith returned to this city, and almost immediately the former the street offering for sale a draft on St. Louis for $2,350.00, tbe price of blood of course, was offered to Messrs. Forrest, banker-tbe counter of Messrs. Morford however, Noyes obtained his money thus putting on record with them what some of oar detectives as sharp as Noyes but just then on another lead not long thereafter had spotted and made Into ‘evidence.* The excitement in our community yesterday morning was intense. At .an early honrthe negro Turner had been discharged from voluntary incarceration, and not long thereafter it was evident that indignation had grown over Bight. Such wera some of thahad his case been brought for; the change of Tenue they covet, before the people of his lt;color, especially the brother of the betrayed Scott, who, without paying the least regard t the Constitution of the United States and the laws of property, manifested, not loudly deeply, emotions not very becoming in chattels, or those subject to become such.District Attorney Haven, assisted by John C. Miller, Esq., appeared for the people, the pris-were not represented by counsel nor did Jxpress their desire for any, Smith managing his own case. Mr* Haven reminded his Honor Jnstice MilUken that by tbe statute if convicted the defendants were subject to a penalty of imprisonment in tbe Penitentiary for from one to seven years, in each case of a person kidnapped, and that as three men had been was alleged kidnapped by these:men, aided another still at large, he should iu vie t importance of tbe case ask a continuance, and in tbe meantime that heavy bail might be fixed in each case.After some discussion Smith waived an ex-lination, mid subsequently gave bail in $3,000 appear at the August term of tbe Recorder’s Court. The others, Turner and the boy Oert-i, were committed in default of $1,000 bailbeing made by detectives Pinkerton, Bradley and other officers with what we believe and trust is' a full intent and desire to capture the fugitive Noyes, for whose capture if necessary, a much larger reward could be offered than the paltry sum that made him a negro-hunter. This affair has justly made a most profound sensation here, perhaps more so than any like event for ten years past, and yet there seems to be no desire other than that the law should take its course.These men, and their companion, if taken, suffer the law’s extremist penalty if' convicted. There was a rumor of a large gathering of colored citizens last evening on the corner of Buffalo and Jackson streets, there was an assembly of perhaps an hundred and fifty at the Methodist Chapel there situated, but was a quiet and orderly gathering, with closed doors to the general public, and, wc learn, characterized by a moderation and tone of sentiment expressed m»t at all at variance with the character borne by our colored residents as quiet, peace-loving men, despite theirLatzh.—We learn that about tea o’clock 1 evening another party Implicated in the kid* tapping wc* arrested. Tho pcrsdt icex-pdice-Dewey, formerly in the employ of the railroad companies at the Illinois Central depot, who has just returned to this city from a trip to Pike’s Peak. It Is charged that he .was one t f assistants of Noyes and Smith in the car that conveyed the party to St. Louis.University of 1The address of Rev. W. IV. Evsrts, D. D., of this city, delivered at the First Baptist Church last evening before tbo Trustees and friends of the University of Chicago, was largely attended. Tbe address was a practical and eloquent appeal in favor of education, tbe influence of religion upon education, and the effect of religious education upon the rising generation and the country at large, tion to the effects of religion upon education, the speaker contended that in all conditions of man, in all countries and years from the lt;es down to the present time, religion of some sort or other, had controlled, or exerted a controlling influence upon education. This, he light not be apparent In this country, but so here. Tbe schools, colleges and universities have been mainly established and supported by religious men; tbe dim education with it wherever it goes.Is this, the speaker asked, a legitimate and proper control? Education is power; power without control is dangerous; knowledge r,* the first pair in the garden of Eden, and knowlege may ruin us and tbe country unless guided by religion. Poetiy, tbe fine arts, and music bare drawn alike tbeir inspiration from religion. The subjects of the great masters are mainly from the Bible; tbe greatest poets of i and modern times found their themes InErery denomination that wishes to keep alive its frith in tbe hearts of the people, must educate in that frith. The papal power understand this, and iu its convents, school# and nuneries this principle is strictly carried out. Thea eak-‘ sd with an eloquent appeal to the Baptists of the Northwest, that they should take can the enterprise which had opened in a atylec icnsurate with the character of the city, i building and surroundings superior to most of the old institutions of tbe east, but befitting Its object and the enterprise of the people among whom its lot has been cast Thk Crystal Lax* Exccrsiox.—A larg pany attended the jubilee of the Owen street Sabbath School, at Ciystal Lake, on Tuesday, filling ten passenger cars and crowding many s into the baggage car. The -beautiful grove resounded with tbe voices of many c dren of small and “ larger growth.” Singing, sailing, games of ball, swinging, romping, i eating and drinking, contributed to the common * cent. In the distance, upon the lake, two ed beads popping up and down indicatedthe popularity of crystal undercurrents in mid-■ 'er. During the day nine members of tbe lirest Western Band discoursed charming music with tbeir usual abtiitv, and at two o’clock the children of the Sabbath School, though surrounded by unexpected hindrances in respect to their performances, did credit to tbemselres in the erection of an inscribed evergreen arch as an allegorical representation cf tbeir miss’ ary and benevolent efforts. Tbe speeches choruses were well delivered by them. Two balloons were sent off—one from a boat in tbe lake, the other from the land—bearing iuscrip- At five o’clock we gathered for and L___pleasant and speedy trip home. Ererjthing moved systematically, and we think the day wiil be remembered with unusual pleasure by everybody who participated in its enjoyments. C.*The Suicide Case.—In tbe case of the suicide at a house of prostitution a few days since, the connection of the unfortunate girl wiih a railroad conductor, was referred to, 1 _was said in our columns to designate of which Company be was the employ ee. We give place to the following, however, .willing to give tho Company in whose behalf it was written the benefit of a correction of statements made by ear neighbors: „ „__6 Onrc* or mO. 4C.UE, \: Chios*, July s\ISS9. i. EdWn Press Tribune:• Gxrrs:—We have i _______cl or referred to in the history of the suicide rear bf 249 State street, aa published by too. has never hi in the employment of this Com-^Please do justice to jhri cUi pVoveea, by matin£ tin* fact in/' and oblige, Toura truly.“ * next issue,ST Meteorological obserrat H. Reed 4 Co., apothecaries, 1, street, July 20th, 1959.*7 a.IOajc. lean »».i
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