ad then and there in
his hands and possession for service of the same, and which
he was then and there serving and attempting to serve and
execute; which said warrant commanded the said Freeman to
apprehend one Anthony Burns and to have him forthwith before
the said Commissioner, then and there to be dealt with
according to law. Against the peace and dignity of the said
United States, and contrary to the form of the Statute in
such case made and provided.

3d. And the Jurors aforesaid, on their oath aforesaid, do
further present, that on the twenty-sixth day of May, in the
year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and fifty-four,
at Boston, in said District, the said Theodore Parker, with
force and arms, did knowingly and wilfully obstruct, resist,
and oppose one Watson Freeman, who was then and there an
officer of the said United States, to wit, the Marshal of
the United States for the said District of Massachusetts, in
serving and attempting to serve and execute a certain legal
process which before that time, to wit, on the 25th day of
May, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and
fifty-four, had been duly issued under the hand of Edward G.
Loring, who was then and there a Commissioner of the Circuit
Court of the United States, for the said District of
Massachusetts, and was then and there duly empowered to
issue said legal process, and which said legal process was
duly committed for obedience and execution to the said
Freeman, Marshal as aforesaid, wherein and whereby and in
pursuance of the command whereof the said Freeman was then
and there lawfully retaining, detaining, and holding one
Anthony Burns for the further hearing and determination of a
certain complaint, upon which a warrant before that time, to
wit, on the twenty-fourth day of said May, had been duly
issued under the hand and seal of the said Commissioner, by
force of which warrant the said Anthony Burns had been duly
arrested and apprehended by the said Freeman, and in
execution of the same, on the twenty-fifth day of said May
had been brought by the said Freeman before the said
Commissioner.

4th. And the jurors aforesaid, on their oath aforesaid, do
further present, that on the twenty-sixth day of May, in the
year of our Lord one tho