al process aforesaid, and of said
further legal process and order last mentioned, the said
Watson Freeman, Marshal as aforesaid, then and there, at the
said Court House in said Boston, had in his custody the
person of the said Anthony Burns, in the due and lawful
execution of the said warrant and legal process, and of the
said further legal process and order, in manner and form as
he was therein commanded--and one Theodore Parker, of
Boston, in said District, Clerk, then and there well knowing
the premises, with force and arms did knowingly and wilfully
obstruct, resist, and oppose the said Watson Freeman, then
and there being an officer of the said United States, to
wit, Marshal of the said District, in serving and attempting
to serve and execute the said warrant and legal process, and
the said further legal process and order in manner and form
as he was therein commanded, to the great damage of the said
Watson Freeman, to the great hinderance and obstruction of
Justice, to the evil example of all others, in like case
offending, against the peace and dignity of the said United
States, and contrary to the form of the Statute in such case
made and provided.

2d. And the Jurors aforesaid, on their oath aforesaid, do
further present, that on the twenty-sixth day of May, in the
year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and fifty-four,
at Boston, in said District, one Theodore Parker, of Boston,
in said District, Clerk, with force and arms, did knowingly
and wilfully obstruct, resist, and oppose one Watson
Freeman, who was then and there the Marshal of the United
States of America, for the District of Massachusetts, and an
officer of the said United States, in serving and attempting
to serve and execute a certain warrant and legal process,
which before that time, to wit, on the twenty-fourth day of
May, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and
fifty-four, had been duly issued under the hand and seal of
Edward G. Loring, Esquire, a Commissioner of the Circuit
Court of the United States, for said District of
Massachusetts, and directed to the Marshal of the District
of Massachusetts, or either of his deputies, which said
warrant and legal process the said Freeman, in the due and
lawful execution of his said office, h