service _nineteen years before_. The slave was accordingly
delivered up, and was taken to Kentucky, (Feb. 1851.)

_Clearfield County, Penn., about 20th January, 1851._ A
boy was kidnapped and taken into slavery.--_Mercer (Pa.)
Presbyterian_.

_Near Ripley, Ohio._ A fugitive slave, about January 20,
killed his pursuer. He was afterwards taken and carried back
to slavery.

_Burlington, Lawrence County, Ohio, near the end of February,
1851_, four liberated slaves were kidnapped, re-enslaved, and
sold. Efforts were made to bring the perpetrators of this
nefarious act to punishment, and restore the victims to
freedom.

_At Philadelphia, early in March, 1851_, occurred the case of
the colored woman HELEN or HANNAH, and her son, a child of
tender years. She was taken before a Commissioner, and
thence, by writ of _habeas corpus_, before Judge Kane. An
additional question arose from the fact that the woman would
soon become the mother of another child. Judge Kane decided
that she was the property of John Perdu, of Baltimore,
together with her son, and her unborn child, and they were
all surrendered accordingly, and taken into slavery.

_Pittsburg, March 13, 1851._ RICHARD GARDINER was arrested in
Bridgewater, Beaver County, Pennsylvania, claimed as the
property of Miss R. Byers, of Louisville, Kentucky. Judge