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Who is Park? - - We have some more light relative to the pet of the St. Louis Democrat - G. S. Park - below. It will be seen that Park is proved a negro thief. - Jefferson (Mo.) Examiner.
Personally appeared before me, Wm. H. Summers, within and for Platte County, Missouri, John K. L. Talbot, who states, that having been at the late Delaware payments in Kansas Territory, I heard some gentlemen talking of a man by the name of Park, who had been notified to leave Platte County on account of his abolition sentiments.
I then told them I had seen a man whipped in Harrison County, Texas, for stealing negroes. I was then requested to describe said Park, which I did, and they said the description was a true one of G. S. Park.
Some days subsequent, being in Parkville, I was requested by several of the citizens to see if I could discover the man upon the street whom I had seen whipped. I looked around, and saw him coining down the street. I recognized him when I was some 4 or 5 feet from him. G. S. Park, the man whom I saw in Parkville, was the identical man that I saw whipped in Harrison County, Texas.
He was tracked into the swamp, some five or 6 miles from Marshall, by dogs. He was then brought back to Marshall, and there tried by the citizens, and condemned to be publicly whipped for having stolen or decoyed off the Negroes in Texas.
George S. Park, the man who I saw in Parkville, I feel well assured, is identical with the individual who was publicly whipped in Texas.
JOHN N. L. TALBOT. Subscribed and sworn to before we, this 8th day of June, 1855. Wm. H. Summers, J. P. (Justice of the Peace)Date(s) of Creation
7/20/1855
