Rensselaer Gazette, Volume 2, Number 42, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 February 1859 — A Man on Tianl for Procuring his Wife’s Freedom. [ARTICLE]

A Man on Tianl for Procuring his Wife’s Freedom.

A somewhat r-.‘markable case is now before the J efferson Counly Circuit Court, at . Louisville. We have heretofore alluded to ! the arrest of the respondent, F. G. Cope, for assisting the- flight of Rachel, a good . looking slave woman belonging to John C. Weatherly, who-resides in the outskirts of : Louisville, but will briefly recapitulate the circumstances. The woman disappeared in November, 1856, and was found by her ;,ias- ; ter in Chatham, C. W., in.the following Au- ! gust. During an interview which ensued, . she delivered to Mr. Weatherly a Bible and ; two letters, which she .said were sent her, by .Cope, for whom, before her elopement : she had washed. It appears from the letters, as read in Court, that the writer either i is or regards himself Alie husband of Rachel, ■ for whom he protests the warmest affection, ■ awaiting with impatience the time when he ! shall see her again. Upon the return of Air. Weatherly to Louisville, Cope was arrested. The evidence lias thus far turned ■ upon the authorship of the letters They are merely signed--George,” but several persons lamiiiar with the respondent’s manuscript have testified that they arc in his hand wri- > ting. Cope previous to his arrest, had been a storekeeper at Louisville.— Cin. Gaz.