of Norfolk, Va. Seth J. Thomas
appeared as counsel for Caphart. After a brief hearing before
G.T. Curtis, Commissioner, the case was adjourned to the
following Tuesday. Shortly after the adjournment, the
court-room was entered by a body of men, who bore away the
prisoner, Shadrach. After which he was heard of in Montreal,
Canada, having successfully, with the aid of many friends,
escaped the snares of all kidnappers, in and out of Boston.
The acting President, MILLARD FILLMORE, issued his
proclamation, countersigned by DANIEL WEBSTER, Secretary of
State, requiring prosecutions to be commenced against all who
participated in the rescue.

_Shawneetown, Illinois._ A woman was claimed by Mr. Haley,
of Georgia, as his slave; and was delivered up to him by two
Justices of the Peace, (early in 1851.)

_Madison, Indiana._ George W. Mason, of Davies County,
Kentucky, arrested a colored man, named MITCHUM, who, with
his wife and children, lived near Vernon. The case was tried
before a Justice of the Peace, named Basnett, who was
satisfied that Mitchum was Davis's slave, and had left his
service _nineteen years before_. The slave was accordingly
delivered up, and was taken to Kentucky, (Feb. 1851.)

_Clearfield County, Penn., about 20th January, 1851._ A
boy was kidnapped and taken into slavery.--_Mercer (Pa.)
Presbyterian_.

_Near Ripley, Ohio._ A fugitive slave, about January 20,
killed his pursuer. He was afterwards taken and carried back
to slavery.

_Burlington, Lawrence County, Ohio, near the end of February,
1851_, four liberated slaves were kidnapped, re-enslaved, and
sold. Efforts were made to bring the perpetrators of this
nefarious act to punishment, and restore the victims to
freedom.

_At Philadelphia, early in March, 1851_, occurred the case of
the colored woman HELEN or HANNAH, and her son, a child of
tender years. She was taken before a Commissioner, and
thence, by writ of _habeas corpus_, before Judge Kane. An
additional question arose from the fact that the woman would
soon become the mother of another child. Judge Kane decided
that she was the property of John Perdu, of Baltimore,
together with her son, and her unborn child, and they were
all surrendered accordingly, and taken into slavery.

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