A Fugitive Slave Returned — On Sunday evening, about 9 o’clock, the steamship Roanoke arrived at her dock from Richmond,Va., and during the night, as they were discharging her cargo, one of the hands discovered a case carefully done up, in which was a secreted a man. He being nearly suffocated for want of air, broke through the lid, when it was discovered that he was a fugitive slave, and the steamer was immediately sent from her dock and anchored off Sandy Hook, and the negro sent on board of one of the Richmond packets bound there. N. Y. Tribune, Oct. 7
(Liberator, Oct. 10, 1856, pg 3)