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lt; gs, they Hrp trvingto “ get out,” but• cant.”—-Ball. Put.v' -^Wr*Love. Larceny, and Soicide.Extiaot of a letter, d.»ud Burling-•n. Lawrence county. Ohio, January 30: A «ragiral circumstance took place ear this town yesterday. A -h«»rt me since a man by the name ot'Har-H, an overseer fora gentleman b\ the™ «rime of Stephens, living in S. Caroli-a, came fmm that siaie into Ohio• ringing with him two of the negroegf said Stephens, one of which was a voting female. * hey crossed the Ohio near thig place, and as report ales, came into the county of Slt;into, cod resided for a short time in Clay ' w ship, in the neighboihood of one Wm. R’ by. Stephens, the owner ofhe i.egroes, with another gentleman, ur.ued the runaways, apprenend d’ id took the said Hardy into custodv.\fter having arrested his negroe-, e his return car/.e to Burlington, Sie-hens and the gentleman who acoom* anted him, and one nt our ne g’ hi is, vere arregted under the act to pi * v* nt ridnnyping but were alt; quitted— i» ■ p-earu.g that they had pursued the roper method for recovering their l ives—and having proied thcr pro-erty they were allowed to dep rt• ith them. Hardy in the mean tune vas set at liberty; the company then lepafted in ihree bodies, all going the ame road. Hardy proceeded wiih he first company—on romu g into a iece of woods, unperceived by any'e, he got info a tree, tod a smallgjorHpe-vine about his neck, made thether end fast to the tree, tied bighands behind him, and let himself fall, f»n the arrival of thw second part of he company at the place. Hardy wag fead;the female slave seeing Hardy in this situation, spra g towards him,Irew a iaz«»r from her bosom, and by wo desperate cuts, cut her own throat almost from ear to ear, then threw the r»z r on the ground, clag-ed her arms around the dead tody of u|Hardy, said he had died for her and ’he would die for him. But fortun-d lately, the girl, in her trepidation, turn-d ed the razor so upright that the maia ololood vessels were unirjured; thereare hopes of her recovery. She stales that Hardy and herself entered intoin agreement, that it they were separated they would die for each other. ^ j 11 i§ said Hnrdy was well drested,tnd hi? conn von* rosppr te.
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Fayette Missouri Intelligencer And Boons Lick Advertiser
Fayette, Missouri, US
Fri, Mar 14, 1828
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