the country he should not be deported.

About three years after the events mentioned above, which would be
about 1856, Mrs. Haviland records a meeting with D. L. Ward, a New
Orleans attorney, who said to her: "We are going to have Anderson by
hook or by crook; we will have him by fair means or foul; the South is
determined to have that man."

The whereabouts of Anderson between 1853 and 1859 is not on record.
Probably he lived most of that time in southwestern Ontario where his
own people were most numerous. It is stated that he had worked in
Hamilton and Caledonia. In the fall of 1860 he was working near
Brantford when it came to the ears of a magistrate at Brantford,
Matthews by name, that at some time in the past this Negro had
committed a crime and was a fugitive from the justice of his own
State. Matthews had the Negro arrested and locked him up. It would
appear that he had no evidence of any kind other than rumor. S. B.
Freeman, who defended Anderson later, says that he went to the
Brantford magistrate and made inquiries about the prisoner, being told
that the fugitive was held pending the receipt of necessary evidence.
According to Freeman's charges, which were made publicly in _The
Toronto Globe_ of December 11, 1860, Matthews communicated with
private detectives in Detroit who passed the word on to friends of the
deceased Diggs in Missouri and they promptly applied at Washington for
extradition papers. _The Hamilton Times_ charged that Matthews had
subjected his prisoner to most rigorous prison life for two months,
keeping him ironed, permitting no Negro friends to see him, not even
admitting Rev. Walter Hawkins, the Negro preacher who afterwards
became a bishop.[3] It required very much persuasion on the part of
Freeman, and apparently some threats as well, to induce the Brantford
magistrate to release his prisoner. When let out of jail Anderson went
to Simcoe and was working there when again arrested, this time, it
would appear, on a warrant sworn out by a Detroit man named Gunning.
There are indications in the press reports of the time that the
Brantford magistrate was much aggrieved at his prisoner getting into
other hands and sought to have the case transferred to Brantford,
being aided in this by the county Crown attorney.

In a letter to the _Hamilton Spectator_ Freeman made this charge
against the magistrate: "Mr. Matthews arrested him as having been
guilty of murder without any legal evidence of a