Record Data
Source citation
“The Philadelphia Slave Case,” Boston (MA) Liberator, August 17, 1855, p. 131: 2.
Newspaper: Publication
Boston Liberator
Newspaper: Headline
The Philadelphia Slave Case
Newspaper: Page(s)
131
Newspaper: Column
2
Type
Newspaper
Date Certainty
Exact
Transcriber
Don Sailer, Dickinson College
Transcription
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.
THE PHILADELPHIA SLAVE CASE.-A correspondent in Philadelphia, in a letter dated Aug. 9, says:-
'The Grand Jury found true bills yesterday against Passmore Williamson and the five colored men for riot and assault and battery; also against William Still, another colored man, clerk in the Anti-Slavery office. Mr. Still, on hearing of his indictment, went forward voluntarily, and entered bonds for his appearance. J. M. McKim, Secretary of the Anti-Slavery Society, became his security.
The case came on to-day for trial; but the defendants not having been able, on so short a notice, to prepare their testimony, asked for a continuance, which after a good deal of resistance on the part of the counsel for Mr. Wheeler, was granted. The case is postponed till the 27th instant.’
'The Grand Jury found true bills yesterday against Passmore Williamson and the five colored men for riot and assault and battery; also against William Still, another colored man, clerk in the Anti-Slavery office. Mr. Still, on hearing of his indictment, went forward voluntarily, and entered bonds for his appearance. J. M. McKim, Secretary of the Anti-Slavery Society, became his security.
The case came on to-day for trial; but the defendants not having been able, on so short a notice, to prepare their testimony, asked for a continuance, which after a good deal of resistance on the part of the counsel for Mr. Wheeler, was granted. The case is postponed till the 27th instant.’
