(About June 1, 1854.) The kidnapper was
arrested and held to bail in the sum of $1,000, to take his
trial at next Circuit Court.
_Near Cedarville, Ohio, May 25, 1854_, about noon, "a colored
man, of middle age and respectable appearance, was walking on
the Columbus and Xenia turnpike. He was alone. A man in a
buggy overtook him, and invited him to ride, saying he was a
friend to the colored man, and promising to assist him in
obtaining his liberty." He took the colored man to the house
of one Chapman, "three miles south of Selma, in Greene
county." There Chapman and the other, (whose name was William
McCord,) fell upon the colored man, struck him with a _colt_
upon the head, so that he bled severely, and bound his hands
behind him. "Soon after the negro got loose and ran down the
road; McCord ran after him, crying 'Catch the d----d horse
thief,' &c., Chapman and his son following; negro picked up
a stone, the man a club and struck him on the head, so that
he did not throw the stone.
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