Record Data
Source citation
“Alleged Fugitive Slave Case in Philadelphia,” New York Herald, July 29, 1860, p. 4: 6.
Newspaper: Publication
New York Herald
Newspaper: Headline
Alleged Fugitive Slave Case in Philadelphia
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.
Alleged Fugitive Slave Case in Philadelphia.
PHILADELPHIA, July 28, 1860.
James Valentine, a negro drayman, was arrested this morning by Deputy Marshal Jenkins on the supposition that he was Benjamin Hurd, a fugitive slave. On the hearing it was proved that Valentine was a native of New Jersey, and has been resident here for thirty years, and the case was dismissed. Valentine was roughly handled when he was arrested, and has in consequence commenced legal proceedings against the officers. There is great indignation among his friends.
