Description
As reported in the Missouri Democrat: "Luther G. Conklin yesterday arrived from Madison County, Illinois, having in custody as a runaway slave, a dark mulatto, 19 or 20 years old, named Thompson Rowland.
He was taken before Justice McDonald, who, on the prisoner's confession that he belonged to and had run away from Mr. Benjamin Morton, of Platte City, Missouri, committed the aforesaid fugitive property to jail."Date(s) of Creation
6/12/1862