f
these young men told me that at no place south of Port Deposit
could they get any one to assist them in handling the corpse).
By this time the affair had created a great excitement, both in
Chester county and the City of Baltimore. Rev. John M. Dickey,
Hon. Henry S. Evans, then a member of the Senate. Brinton
Darlington, then Sheriff of Chester county, and very many of the
leading men took a deep interest in the matter; we all did our
part. The Society of Friends in Baltimore took the matter in
hand, and many other worthy citizens belonging to the
Presbyterian Church and others lent their aid and influence.
Hon. Henry S. Evans, who was then in the Senate of Pennsylvania,
brought the matter before the Legislature, and the result was
that the Governor appointed Judges Campbell and Bell, the latter
of our county, to defend these two poor colored girls thus
foully kidnapped.

The body of Miller underwent a post-mortem examination in
Baltimore county, at which a great number of rowdies attended,
who occupied their time drinking whisky and cursing the
Pennsylvania Abolitionists; the body finally reached its
distressed home for interment. Drs. Hutchinson and Dickey were
called upon to make an examination, at which I was present, and
all were clearly of opinion that he had been foully murdered.
His wrists and ankles bore the unmistakable marks of manacles;
across the abdomen was a black mark as if made by a rope or
cord; the end of his nose bore marks as if held by some
instrument of torture. His funeral took place, and his remains
were followed to the grave by an immense concourse of
sympathizing friends and neighbors.

Such, however, was the excitement, that the public demanded a
further examination; he was disinterred again, and the same two
eminent physicians made a thorough post-mortem examination, and
one of them told the writer that there were not two ounces of
contents in his stomach and bowels, and that there was abundant
evidence of the presence of arsenic. His remains were again
interred and suffered to remain undisturbed.

The theory of his friends was that he had been suddenly snatched
from the platform of the car in the Baltimore Depot, gagged,
stripped, and lashed down by the ankles and wrists, and a rope
across his abdomen, that his nose had been held