Around dusk on March 10, 1854, Joshua Glover's former master, along with a St. Louis police officer, two deputy U.S. marshals, and four others, appeared at Marvin Armour's livery door. The posse took two wagons and headed for Glover's cabin at the sawmill. Glover was captured, beaten, bloodied, and put on the floor of one of the wagons. Required to file federal paperwork in Milwaukee and fearing that Glover might be forcibly liberated if he were kept overnight in Racine's flimsy jail, some of his captors took Glover to Milwaukee's sturdier jail. As the remaining wagon arrived back at Armour's livery, its occupants were confronted by a crowd of Racine abolitionists.