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The Shaw Ktdnapping Case.At thn opening of tbo Ccprr ■{ Quarter Sessions yesterday morning, it was diec-jv^rcu that on a of tbo jnror? wee quite ti. By consent o »l.o ts-m^el .or both sides, tbo caseVa- continued y ith cloven jurors.The first witness called was Philip HarLd, w q testified that b* bsd known Ferris about four y**nrs, worked with him m July, 1^67, for Mr, Faulkner, m Manchester. At that time he received a letter from Meeks, then in St. Louis, which stated that he thvajv t 1 e could do better there and ndvisiEg Harlan to t;o ihero. He left this city on the 4th of Au gnit, 1857, (0* t, however, -n the *«r*njth of the let-ter) taking Ferris with him. He said Ferris and he started rn a banter, Ferris proposing to go and Harlan agreeing to go if Ferri3 went. They went to St. Louie. Harlan returned on tbo- I4th of September, leaving Ferris in St. Louts. He wanted Harlan to advance him money to come back to Pittsburgh. Has never seen Ferris since he came back from St. Louis.Miles Owc-n, lt;-f Memphis, Tennessee, was next called to the stand. The defense offered to provo by this witness that he knew Ferris; had owned him as a slave ; and sold him to Raglan; that he was and is now the slave of Raglan ; that he is the same person who worked h rc as a bricklayer. Also that j Shaw did not entice him out of Pennsy!ranis.Tin? Court overruled the part of tbo offer relative to the slavery of Ferris, unless it was first proved by competent testimony that slavery exists in Alabama.Sir. S war; sw elder offered to provo that slavery exists in Alabama, first by Mr. Penney, an attorney^as »n,exert, then by the United States Digest, containing decisions regulating slavery in Alabama, ana finally by Kent's Commentary, which contained a history' t! the rise and progress of slavery, alleging that it siid exit’s in all the Southern States. All the offers were overruled, being objected to by Mr. Kirkpatrick, coarse' for the prosecution.Mr. Owen wa.* then called to tfco stand to prove that Ferris was oot enticed to the South by bhaw^Mr. Owen testified that he knew Geo. W. Ferns. Last saw him in April, 1S5S. Had a conversation with him, [cccDsei i-r pro.-oeation objected to the introduction of this evidence, but the objection was overruled by the Conn.] Ho showed me his satchel marked “George •*. Ferris, Pittsburgh, Pa. I should say ths-x he was the same man who wax in Allegheny. [All evidence aa to the conversation of witness with Ferris was overruled by the Court.] Ferris was much like a white man, but had African blood in his veins ; I owned his mother. The description of George in Uncle Tom’s Cabin was very accurate.On cross-examination Mr. Owen statod that he knew Ferris tv. b in Pittsburgh by despatches he had seen from Shaw to Raglan, stating that Ferris was in this city. I first saw him in ^Natchez in 1855, when he w -'.8 the property of Henry T. Miller. Mr. Miller's slaves wero purchased by the friends of his wTe.Mr. Sw irtswelder stated that he had used every | endeavor to got his witness bore, but failed, and be , would, therefore, t?k the Court to give him until morning, to procure their attendance, which was , granted by tbo Court. !The counsel then informed the Court on several points wh'ck wjiBd be submitted : and at ha’f-past fivo o’clock, the Court adjourned.
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Pittsburgh Morning Post
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, US
Fri, Oct 15, 1858
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