This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Abbott, Hughes Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/AFB.2ACE/1861.1 Message Board Post: According to the searchable online database of the Boston Globe 1872-1923 at the Boston Public Library website, the arrest of Tilden G. Abbot was front page news. From 24 April 1884: TILDEN G. ABBOTT CAUGHT.; Put Under Arrest at Peirce City in Missouri. Keeping a Clothing Store Under the Assumed Name of Forrester. An Officer Despatched to Bring Back the Fugitive. WONDER AT WATERTOWN.; The Rank Officials and Citizens Generally Very Much Surprised That Abbott Had Not Fled the Country. The Management of the Case Pankerton of the Detective Bureau. From 25 April 1884: ABBOTT CLOSELY GUARDED.; The Officers Having Him in Charge Refuse to Allow Anybody to See Him--Query as to Whether He Will be Tried by State or United States Courts. WHICH WILL IT BE? Tllden G. Abbott Sought For by Both the United States and State Authorities. From 26 April 1884: ABBOTT, THE DEFAULTER.; He is Taken in Custody by a United States Marshal. Securing a Bottle of Whiskey He Becomes Intoxicated and Threatens Vengeance. John J. Hughes of Watertown Also a Prisoner With Abbott ..and so on and so on. Anyone with a BPL card can read these online at http://www.bpl.org under Electronic Resources. If you are a Massachusetts resident you can get a BPL card. -dja