m to a stable, where they were to remain until
night. He immediately went to Covington, Kentucky, learned
that $1,000 reward was offered for their apprehension, and
gave information of their place of concealment. At evening a
strong band of Kentuckians, with United States Deputy Marshal
George Thayer, assisted by three Cincinnati officers,
surrounded the stable and took the nine prisoners, on a
warrant issued by United States Commissioner Pendery. They
were all given up to their claimants, and taken back to
Kentucky.

_A New Orleans correspondent of the New York Tribune_, in a
letter dated July 3, 1854, writes, "During a recent trip up
the river I was on several steamers, and on every boat they
had one or more runaway slaves, who had been caught and were
being taken in _irons_ to their _masters_."

_On the Steamer Alvin Adams_, at Madison, Indiana, a man was
arrested as a fugitive and taken to Louisville, Kentucky.
He was claimed as the slave of John H. Page, of Bowling
Green. The _Louisville Journal_, edited by a Northern man,
stigmatised him as a "rascal," for his attempt to be free.
(July, 1854.)

_Two colored men_, on their way to Chicago, were seized and
taken from the cars at Lasalle, Illinois, by three men, who
said they were not officers. The colored men were known to
be free; one was "a respectable resident of Chicago." Some of
the passengers interfered; but it being night, and very dark,
and the cars starting on the colored men were left in the
hands of their kidnappers.

_Chicago, Illinois._ Three men from Missouri, with a warrant
from the Governor of that State, to take a certain fugitive
slave, seized a man whom they met in the street, bound him
with a handkerchief, and to quicken his steps beat him with
the butt of a pistol. He succeeded in shaking off his captors
and fled, a pistol-bullet being sent after him, which did not
hit him. He made good his escape. The men were arrested and
held to trial for assault with deadly weapons. By an
extraordinary conspiracy on the part of District Attorney
Hoyne, Sheriff Bradley, and others, these men were taken from
jail to be carried to Springfield, Illinois, two hundred
miles distant, to appear before Chief Justice Treat, that he
might inquire "whether said allege