Edinburgh (Scotland) Caledonian Mercury, "American Items - Escape of Fugitives," February 16, 1856

   ESCAPE OF FUGITIVES––EXCITING CHASE––UNFORTUNATE CAPTURE OF ONE.––A paper, published in the town of Frederick, Md., called The Examiner, gives a description of a late stampede of slaves from that vicinity. It appears that six of them––four men and two women––having two spring waggons and four horses, came to Hood's Mill, on the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, near the dividing line between Frederick and Carroll Counties, on Christmas Day. After feeding their animals, one of them told Mr. Dixon whence they came. Believing them to be fugitives, he spread the alarm, and some eight or ten persons gathered around to arrest them; but the negroes, drawing revolvers and bowie-knives, kept their assailants at bay, until five of the party succeeded in escaping in one of the waggons, and as the last one jumped on a horse to flee, he was fired at, and the land took effect in the small of the back. After going a few rods, he reeled, and fell to the ground, when he was pounced upon, and secured. How he was used by his captors we know hot; but humanity shudders at the probable result.