AFTERMATH SUPPLEMEN- TARY TO CHRISTIANA RIOT, 1851 Since the publication, under the auspices of this Society, sixty years after the event, of the History of the Christiana Riot and the Treason Trials of 1851, the author has obtain- ed considerable detailed information bearing on those famous

fugitive slave act and about a year after the "Christiana riot." Mr. Cassel records the facts and reflects his opinions of the case in a memoir which has great personal and local interest. Substantially he says: In the fall of 1852 I and others in the State were summoned as jurors to the District Court of

CASTNER HANWAY. ELIJAH LEWIS. JOSEPH SCARLET. TAKEN SOON AFTER THE TREASON T.�I...LS. THE CHRISTIANA RIOT AND THE TREASON TRIALS OF 1851 AN HISTORICAL SKETCH BY W. U. HENSEL PREPARED AND PUBLISHED FOR THE COMMEMORATION OF THESE EVENTS, SEPTEMBER 9, 191l PRESS OF THE NEW ERA PRINTING COMPANY

, the Maryland slaveholder, who was killed in what passed into history as "The Christiana Riot," an account of which was the subject of an interesting paper some months ago read before the Society by Thomas Whitson, Esq. '1 he following is a transcription of this in- quest : LANCASTER COUNTY, as. : "An