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The people were bound out before notaries and justices of the peace, singly and in groups, some to one, some to two years' service, according to age. "They were scattered," so testified Frank Schuber twenty-five years afterwards, "scattered about like young birds leaving a nest, without knowing anything of each other."
Received 24th January, 1844, and on the 26th of the same month sequestered the body of the plaintiff and committed her to prison for safe keeping; but on the 1st February, 1844, she was released from custody, having entered bond in the sum of one thousand dollars with Francis Schuber as the security conditioned according to law, and which bond is herewith returned this 3d February, 1844.
On the 7th of May Frank Schuber asked leave, and on the 14th was allowed, to substitute another bondsman in his place in order that he himself might qualify as a witness; and on the 23d of May the case came to trial. It had already become famous.
White went out somewhere on the premises, found Salome at work, and remained with her, while Madame Schuber confronted Belmonti, and, revealing Salome's identity and its proofs, demanded her instant release. Belmonti refused to let her go. But while doing so he admitted his belief that she might be of pure white blood and of right entitled to freedom.
Frank Schuber gave the bond and the case went up to the Supreme Court. In that court no witnesses were likely to be examined. New testimony was not admissible; all testimony taken in the inferior courts "went up" by the request of either party as part of the record, and to it no addition could ordinarily be made. The case would be ready for argument almost at once.
Frau Koelhoffer had lived on a farm about an hour's walk from the Müllers and had not known them; but Frau Schultzheimer was a close friend, and had been a schoolmate and neighbor of Salome's mother. The husband of her who was afterward Madame Fleikener was a nephew of the Müller brothers, Frank Schuber was her cousin, and so on.
B.F. LEWIS, d'y sh'ff. Inside is the bond with the signatures, Frantz Schuber in German script, and above in English, Also the writ, ending in words of strange and solemn irony: "In the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and forty-four and in the sixty-eighth year of the Independence of the United States." We need not follow the history at the slow gait of court proceedings.
Once the children of some Germans who had driven cattle from Attakapas to sell them in the shambles at New Orleans corroborated to Frank Schuber the death of the father; but where Salome and Dorothea were they could not say, except that they were in Attakapas. Frank and Eva were specially diligent inquirers after Eva's lost godchild; as also was Henry Müller up in or near Woodville, Mississippi.
The next step was to claim her freedom. She appears to have gone back to Belmonti, but within a very few days, if not immediately, Madame Schuber and a certain Mrs. White who does not become prominent followed down to the cabaret. Mrs.
"Well," said Madame Karl, "if you know her, who is she?" "My God!" cried Eva, "the long-lost Salome Müller!" "I needed nothing more to convince me," she afterwards testified in court. "I could recognize her among a hundred thousand persons." Frank Schuber came in, having heard nothing. He glanced at the stranger, and turning to his wife asked: "Is not that one of the girls who was lost?"
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