Record Data
Source citation
"Runaways Returned," Richmond (VA) Dispatch, November 29, 1855, p. 1: 5.
Newspaper: Publication
Richmond Daily Dispatch
Newspaper: Headline
Local Matters
Newspaper: Page(s)
1
Newspaper: Column
5
Type
Newspaper
Date Certainty
Exact
Transcriber
Zak Rosenberg, Dickinson College
Transcription date
Transcription
The following text is presented here in complete form, as true to the original written document as possible. Spelling and other typographical errors have been preserved as in the original.
Runaways Returned.-It was announced on Monday last, that eleven slaves, belonging to different persons in this city, had abandoned their comfortable homes on the Saturday night previous, with the intention of taking passage by the "underground railroad" to a Northern State. On Tuesday night, five of these deluded creatures, the property of Mrs. Susan L. Hatcher, returned to their mistress, becoming satisfied that servitude in "Old Virginia" was preferable to a precarious existence in a free State. As soon as the return of these fugitives was made known to the Mayor, he immediately summoned his officers, and instituted the most energetic measures to intercept the flight of the other runaways, and their abductors.