ANTI-SLAVERY LAW
AN OFFICIAL CONVICTED FALSELY DETAINED NEGROES. GAOL OR 3500-DOLLARS FINE. Received Nov. 26. 6.19 p.m. JONESBORO (Ark.), Nov. 25. The City Marshal, Reacher, aged 42, was convicted by a jury of an offence under the anti-slavery laws. The jury recommended clemency. The Judge sentenced the prisoner to two years’ imprisonment, with a line of 3500 dollars. He told the jury that this was not a lone case in Arkansas, but occurred frequently and ought to be stopped. The Judge declared that he would suspend sentence and put the prisoner on probation if he paid the fine. The Federal Government showed a close interest in the case. It was declared that the conviction was a distinct victory for law and order. A message published on November 25 stated that Preacher had been arraigned for what was expected to prove to be a new American cause celebre. He was charged with “causing persons to be held as slaves in violation of the anti-slavery law passed after the Civil War. Thirty witnesses, whites and negroes, were ready to testify. The indictment stated that he falsely arrested eight negroes on a vagrancy charge and used them to clear his lands.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 79, Issue 281, 27 November 1936, Page 7
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