1842. Prosecution for causing arrest and removal of a runaway contrary to provisions of a state law. Decision of the Supreme Court of the United States frees state officers from taking part in fugitive slave cases: 16 Peters' Reports, 539; Report of Case of Edward Prigg, Supreme Court, Pennsylvania; Cobb, Historical Sketch of Slavery; Bledsoe, Liberty and Slavery, 355; Clarke, Anti-Slavery Days, 69; Hurd, Law of Freedom and Bondage, II, 456-492; Wilson, Rise and Fall of the Slave Power, I, 472, 473; Von Holst, Constitutional History, III, 310-312.
28. Latimer case.
1842. Famous fugitive slave case in Boston. Fugitive released by purchase: Liberator, Oct. 25, Nov. 11, Nov. 25, 1842, Feb. 3, 7, 17, 1843, and Aug. 16, 1844; Law Reporter, Latimer Case, March, 1843; Eleventh Annual Report of Mass. Anti-Slavery Society; Mass. House Journal, 1843, pp. 72, 158; Mass. Senate Journal, 1843, p. 232; Wilson, Rise and Fall of the Slave Power, I, 477; McDougall, Fugitive Slaves, 39, 40.
29. Milton Clark rescue case.
1842. September. Release of the fugitive, captured in Lake County, Ohio, by writ of habeas corpus in Ashtabula County, Ohio, followed by his disappearance by way of the Underground Railroad: Geneva (Ohio) Times, Sept. 14, 1892.
30. Eells case.
1842-1852. Prosecution for harboring a slave in Adams County, Illinois: 5 Illinois Reports, 498; 14 Howard's Reports, 13.
31. Case of Charles T. Torrey.
1843. Prosecution for attempt to abduct slaves from Virginia: Wilson, Rise and Fall of the Slave Power, II, 80.
32. Case of Delia A. Webster.