A verdict for
$2,000 was given in his favor, which was agreed to by
Ellington's counsel.--_Indiana Free Democrat_, May, 1854.
_Three slaves_, two men and a girl, fled from near Maysville,
Kentucky, into Ohio. Were pursued by their owners and
assistants, five men armed, and were overtaken, says the
Maysville _Weekly Express_, "at the bridge over Rattlesnake
Creek, on the Petersburg and Greenfield road, about ten
o'clock at night," the slaves being, armed, and accompanied
by a white man. Both parties fired, the negro girl was
wounded, but still fled; one of the negro men was also
wounded, and, says the Maysville paper, they "were tracked a
mile and a half by the blood." The other slave was secured
and taken back to Kentucky, "much bruised and cut in the
affray." "The white man," says the same paper, "was also
caught and beaten in a very severe manner with a club, and
strong hopes are entertained that he will die."--_Wilmington
(Ohio) Republican_, July, 22, 1853.
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