She and the others complain of cruel treatment on
the part of their master, and allege that as the cause of
their attempted escape.
The coroner's jury, after examining the citizens present at
the time of the arrest, went to the jail last evening, and
examined the grandmother of the child--one of the slaves. She
testified that the mother, when she saw they would be
captured, caught a butcher knife and ran to the children,
saying she would kill them rather than to have them return to
slavery, and cut the throat of the child, calling on the
grandmother to help her kill them. The grandmother said she
would not do it, and hid under a bed.
The jury gave a verdict as follows:--That said child was
killed by its mother, Margaret Garner, with a butcher knife,
with which she cut its throat.
Two of the jurors also find that the two men arrested as
fugitives were accessories to the murder.
"The murdered child was almost white, and was a little girl
of rare beauty.
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