Record Data
Source citation
“The Hyannis Fugitive Slave Case,” New York Times, June 4, 1859, p. 1: 6.
Newspaper: Publication
New York Times
Newspaper: Headline
The Hyannis Fugitive Slave Case
Newspaper: Page(s)
1
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.
The Hyannis Fugitive Slave Case.
GLOUESTER, Mass., Friday, June 3.
EDWARD B. BACON, master of the schoorner [schooner] Elizabeth, of Hyannis, was arrested here this morning on the charge of returning to Norfolk the fugitive slave COLUMBUS JONES, who was brought into Hyannis in the brig Rolerson. BACON waived an examination, and gave bail in $2,500 to appear before the Superior Court at Barnstable
