{"id":2650,"date":"2010-07-02T22:07:26","date_gmt":"2010-07-03T03:07:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/?p=2650"},"modified":"2010-07-06T10:23:31","modified_gmt":"2010-07-06T15:23:31","slug":"albert-hazlett-trial-in-carlisle-october-1859","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/2010\/07\/02\/albert-hazlett-trial-in-carlisle-october-1859\/","title":{"rendered":"Albert Hazlett – Trial in Carlisle, October 1859"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a> Albert Hazlett<\/a> was among several of John Brown\u2019s<\/a> raiders who were not with their leader on the morning of October 18, 1859 when US Marines attacked<\/a> the engine house at Harpers Ferry<\/a>, Virginia. Instead, Hazlett and Osborne Anderson<\/a> watched the short battle from afar. The two men had left Harpers Ferry undetected late on October 17. After they could not find the five raiders who also escaped, they decided to head north \u2013 which eventually brought them into southern Pennsylvania. While Anderson lived to publish a book<\/a> in 1861 about his experience, Hazlett was arrested in Cumberland County<\/a>, Pennsylvania on October 22, 1859. Local authorities, however, at first thought that they had in custody<\/a> \u201ca man supposed to be Capt. Cook.\u201d (John E. Cook<\/a> was arrested three days later outside of Chambersburg<\/a>, Pennsylvania). The initial confusion offered an opportunity for Hazlett, who claimed that he was actually William Harrison and had nothing to do with Brown\u2019s raid. On October 29 Hazlett appeared before a judge in Carlisle <\/a>on a writ of habeas corpus<\/em>, but Hazlett\u2019s claim that he was the wrong person failed to convince the judge. While \u201cthere is no evidence that we have any man in our custody named Albert Hazlett,\u201d the court ruled<\/a> that \u201cwe are satisfied that a monstrous crime has been committed [and] that the prisoner\u2026participated in it.\u201d Hazlett was sent back to Charlestown<\/a>, Virginia on November 5 for a trial <\/a>and was executed on March 16, 1860<\/a>. Historian David Reynolds, who wrote John Brown, Abolitionist: The Man Who Killed Slavery, Sparked the Civil War, and Seeded Civil Rights<\/a><\/em>, notes that the judge sent Hazlett back to Virginia \u201ceven though the evidence linking him to Harpers Ferry was circumstantial.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Albert Hazlett was among several of John Brown\u2019s raiders who were not with their leader on the morning of October 18, 1859 when US Marines attacked the engine house at Harpers Ferry, Virginia. Instead, Hazlett and Osborne Anderson watched the short battle from afar. The two men had left Harpers Ferry undetected late on October […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[77,171,174],"tags":[169,159],"class_list":["post-2650","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-antebellum-1840-1861","category-historic-periodicals","category-recent-scholarship","tag-carlisle-dickinson","tag-lawmaking-litigating"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2650","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2650"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2650\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2676,"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2650\/revisions\/2676"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2650"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2650"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2650"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}