usand 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, Marshal of the
United States, for the District of Massachusetts, in serving
and attempting to serve and execute a certain warrant and
legal process, which before that time, to wit, on the
twenty-fourth day of May, in the year of our Lord one
thousand eight hundred and fifty-four, had been duly issued
under the hand and seal of Edward G. Loring, Esquire, a
Commissioner of the Circuit Court of the United States, for
the District of Massachusetts, and directed to the Marshal
of the said District of Massachusetts or either of his
Deputies, which the said Freeman, in the due and lawful
execution of his said office, had 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 warrant commanded the said Freeman to
apprehend one Anthony Burns, and to have him forthwith
before the said commissioner and that such further
proceedings might then and there be had in the premises, as
are by law in such cases provided,--and also in serving and
attempting to serve and execute a certain further legal
process which before that time, to wit, on the twenty-fifth
day of May, in the year aforesaid, had been duly issued
under the hand of the said Commissioner, and duly committed
for obedience and execution to the said Freeman, wherein and
whereby, and in pursuance of the command whereof, the said
Freeman was then and there lawfully retaining, detaining,
and holding the said Anthony Burns for the further hearing
and determination of a certain complaint upon which the
warrant aforesaid had been issued by the said Commissioner.

5th. And the Jurors aforesaid on their oath aforesaid, do
further present that one Theodore Parker, of Boston, in said
District, Clerk, on the 26th day of May, in the year of our
Lord one thousand eight hundred and fifty-four, at Boston,
in the said District of Massachusetts, with force and arms,
in and upon one Watson Freeman, then and there in the peace
of the said United States b