Under the title Shall He Be Hung?, here is an article about Washington Goode, a “colored man, a sailor,  … under sentence of death”….noted is a petition to the Governor for the commutation of the sentence …signatures include Samuel May,  Ellis Gray Loring, Wendell Phillips, H. I. Bowditch, James Freeman Clarke, J. A. Andrew.   The signers claim that the evidence of his guilt is circumstantial, and of flimsy character…that  many mistakes have been made, and they also make an appeal that “no good can spring from such an example” because he is “ignorant, friendless, degraded”.

A notice of Feb 22, signed by Samuel May, Jr, appears under the title, Caution.

In it May tells of William Jones, a former slave, now going from place to place collecting money on the pretence of wishing to purchase his wife and children. He had promised to deposit money collected with May, for safe keeping.   May had provided him with a letter of recommendation, but he now withdraws that commendation, and here warns all against being further deceived by him.