...a free negro fellow, named Alexander Johnson, living in Manchester, obtained a warrant to search the house of another negro, named Phœbe Wooddy, whom he suspected of stealing a trunk from his room. Constable Spencer Hancock was entrusted with the execution of the warrant, but upon instituting a search of Phœbe's house, he failed to find said trunk. Subsequently Mr. Hancock had an intimation that Johnson, himself, was ...