Two years after, James McMasters was sued for harboring a fugitive; was to be tried before Grier, and spoke to his lawyer about summoning the editor of the _Visiter_.

The attorney exclaimed: "Oh bring her, by all means! No matter what she knows, or whether she knows anything; bring her into court, and I'll win the case for you.
Grier is more afraid of her than of the devil." The editor was summoned, gave testimony, and found Judge Grier a most courteous and considerate gentleman, with no signs of fear.

The case hung on the question of notice.

The Judge reversed his former decision, and those who were apt to feed beggars, breathed more freely.
A case was tried for the remanding of a slave, and lawyer Snowden appeared for the master.

The _Visiter_ sketched the lawyer as his client's dog, Towser; a dog of the blood-hound breed, with a brand new brass collar, running with his nose to the ground, while his owner clapped his hands and shouted: "Seek him, seek him Towser!" This caught the fancy of the street boys, who called him, "Towser, where's your collar ?" "Seek him, Towser." He was the last Pittsburg lawyer who took a case against a slave, and public sentiment had so advanced that there never afterwards was a fugitive taken out of the county..