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The man was then ordered to be taken by the Sheriff, and
delivered to claimant on board the boat,--which was
done.--_Cincinnati Gazette_, 27th August, 1853.
PATRICK SNEED, a colored waiter in the Cataract House,
Niagara Falls, arrested on the pretended charge of murder
committed in Savannah, Georgia. He was brought, by _Habeas
Corpus_, before Judge Sheldon, at Buffalo, (September, 1853,)
and by him ordered to be "fully discharged."
BILL, [or WILLIAM THOMAS,] a colored waiter at the
Phenix Hotel, Wilkesbarre, Penn., described as a "tall,
noble-looking, intelligent, and active mulatto, nearly
white," was attacked by "Deputy Marshal Wynkoop," Sept. 3,
1853, and four other persons, (three of them from Virginia.)
These men came "suddenly, from behind, knocked him down with
a mace, and partially shackled him." He struggled hard
against the five, shook them off, and with the handcuff,
which had been secured to his right wrist only "inflicted
some hard wounds on the countenances" of his assailants.
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