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The Daily Dispatch: December 15, 1863., [Electronic resource], article 1 (search)
Kidnapping free negroes. --Wm. K Ellett, Ro. F. Cotton, and L. B. Boynton, were before the Mayor yesterdelicited the following facts: On the 4th instant Wm. K. Ellett called at Wm. E. Wade's, on Brook Avenue, and asreceive the negroes, and about 9 o'clock that night Ellett arrived in a carriage with the three negro boys named above. After depositing them Ellett showed Wade a bill of sale for the three, remarking that they belongedMayor, and the next morning officer Perrin arrested Ellett, and found in his possession the bill of sale already noticed. Ellett told the officer that the negroes belonged to a friend, and wrote a note to Boynton to seeing anything about the negroes, but passes found in Ellett's possession showed that the two were connected in rom Texas, and their connection appears to be thus: Ellett is a speculator of limited means, and Cotton is an knowledge of the negroes; and but for the fact that Ellett had a bill of sale with his name on it, he could no