Daniel Craner (b. ? - d. ?)
MSA SC 5496-3386
Accomplice to slave flight, Harford County, Maryland, 1858
Biography:
Daniel Craner, a White resident of Havre de Grace, was convicted in Harford County Circuit Court on two charges, one of which was enticing a slave to run away. The New Jersey-born Craner harbored Ann Howard, the slave of Elizabeth Woodcock, and attempted to help her escape. His first indictment was for unlawfully persuading, enticing, and assisting a slave to run away in his court hearing on the second Monday of May, 1858 in the town of Bel Air. His second indictment was on charges of receiving stolen money in the total amount of $55 and other goods and chattel of Moses Galloway. He was found guilty on both indictments on May 13, 1858, and sentenced on May 25, 1858 to serve a full ten years in the Maryland Penitentiary. Craner was "recommended to the clemency of the Governor by the Director of said Penitentiary for good conduct and the offence of which he was convicted being one which under the present Constitution of the State can no longer be committed...and the punishment he has already endured, being deemed a sufficient expiation of the offence committed by him."1 Governor A.W. Bradford directed a notice of the applications for the pardon of Daniel Craner & Hugh Hazlett, who was recommended for clemency for the same reasons as Craner, on November 21, 1864. Governor Bradford pardoned Daniel Craner on Dec 19, 1864, and Craner was released on Dec. 21, 1864 after serving 6 years in the Maryland Penitentiary.
1. SECRETARY OF STATE (Pardon Record) MSA S1108, Daniel Craner, p 425, Dates: 1845-1865, Accession No.: 7931, MSA No.: S 1108-2.
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