Record Data
Source citation
“Arrest for the Abduction of Slave,” New York Times, June 27, 1859, p. 4: 6.
Newspaper: Publication
New York Times
Newspaper: Headline
Arrest for the Abduction of Slave
Newspaper: Page(s)
4
Newspaper: Column
6
Type
Newspaper
Date Certainty
Exact
Transcriber
Don Sailer, Dickinson College
Transcription date
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.
Arrest for the Abduction of a Slave.
WASHINGTON, Saturday, June 25.
FRANCIS MITCHELL, porter on board the steamer Marion, was arrested at Charleston, on Wednesday, just before the departure of the vessel for New-York. He had attempted to abduct a slave, who was found hidden in MITCHELL’S room.
