New York Times, "Fugitive Slaves Arrested in Cincinnati," June 15, 1857

Source citation
“Fugitive Slaves Arrested in Cincinnati,” New York Times, June 15, 1857, p. 4: 5.
Newspaper: Publication
New York Daily Times
Newspaper: Headline
Fugitive Slaves Arrested in Cincinnati
Newspaper: Page(s)
4
Newspaper: Column
5
Type
Newspaper
Date Certainty
Exact
Transcriber
Scott Ackerman, Dickinson College
Transcription date
The following text is presented here in complete form, as it originally appeared in print.  Spelling and other typographical errors have been preserved as in the original.

Fugitive Slaves Arrested in Cincinnati.

ONE OF THE U.S. MARSHALLS STABBBED BY A SLAVE, ETC.

CINCINNATI, Saturday, June 13th.

This forenoon, as four of the U.S. Deputy Marshals were arresting a fugitive slave and his wife, the slave stabbed one of them, Mr. J. C. ELLIOTT, with a long sword knife, upon which another of the marshals shot the slave in the abdomen four times. The negroes were taken into custody. The marshals wound is dangerous, and the negro’s is considered to be mortal. The affray occurred in a room in Vine street, near the Post-Office, where negroes were secreted.

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