(Bellows Falls) Vermont Chronicle, “Interesting Case,” December 6, 1848

    Source citation
    “Interesting Case,” (Bellows Falls) Vermont Chronicle, December 6, 1848, p. 3: 4.
    Original source
    Philadelphia (PA) Ledger
    Newspaper: Publication
    Bellows Falls Vermont Chronicle
    Newspaper: Headline
    Interesting Case
    Newspaper: Page(s)
    3
    Newspaper: Column
    4
    Type
    Newspaper
    Date Certainty
    Exact
    Transcriber
    Don Sailer, Dickinson College
    Transcription date
    The following text is presented here in complete form, as it originally appeared in print. Spelling and typographical errors have been preserved as in the original.

    INTERESTING CASE. In Cumberland county, Pennsylvania, last week, was tried the case of Catharine Oliver, and others of the State of Maryland, against Daniel Kauffman, of Cumberland county, for aiding the escape and harboring 13 slaves, claimed as the property of the plaintiffs.

    A great number of witnesses were produced by the plaintiffs’ counsel, who proved that the slaves were brought, on the evening of the 24th of Oct., 1847, to the barn of Kauffman, and after remaining there a part of the night, were taken in his wagon across the Susquehanna River. Several witnesses were called, who were immediate neighbors of Kauffman, and obstinately refused to answer any questions or inquiries proposed by the Court of counsel. Being apparently determined to keep silent, they were given into the custody of the sheriff and conveyed to jail. But after remaining there a short time, they concluded it was better to come forward and give evidence. The defendant’s counsel took the ground that a case of this kind did not come under the jurisdiction of that court.

    The jury retired, and after being out some eighteen hours, returned a verdict of $2000 damages for the plaintiffs. - Phila. Ledger.

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