...employed as porter in a store there. On Monday night he was arrested at the suit of his master's agent, and his employer, a Mr. Vall, immediately got out a writ of habeas corpus for the release of " John Thomas ," that being his name. Marshal Rynders responded to it by producing in court the body of a John Thomas, colored man. This J. T., however, was another person, who had been in jail as a witness in a ...