When they were nearly ready to start, Jane Cooper sent her oldest daughter and younger sister, (she who is now our worthy friend Mrs.P.of Bath), into the woods, and then when the men undertook to get Lucas and the two women on board the boat the struggle commenced.

The women fought the Captain and his confederates like a lioness robbed of her whelps! They ran and dodged about, making the woods ring with their screams and shouts of "Murder! Murder! Help! Help! Murder!" until the Captain's party, seeing they could do nothing to quell them, became so exceedingly alarmed lest they should be detected in their illegal proceedings, that they ran off at full speed, as if they thought an officer at their heels.

In their hurry and fright they caught two of Harry's children, and throwing them into the boat, pushed off as quick as possible, amid the redoubled cries of the agonized parents and sympathizing friends, all trying in every way possible, to recover from the merciless grasp of the man-stealer, the two frightened and screaming children.

Guns were fired and horns sounded, but all to no purpose--they held tightly the innocent victims of their cupidity, and made good their escape.
Mr.D.C----, a gentleman of wealth and high standing in Steuben County, became responsible for the fifty dollars which Capt.

Helm promised to pay Simon Watkins for his villainy in betraying, Judas-like, those unsuspecting persons whom it should have been his pleasure to protect and defend against their common oppressor,--his own as well as theirs.
In addition to this rascality, it can not appear very creditable to the citizens of Steuben County, that Capt.