"She was repeatedly beaten over the head with policemen's clubs but she never for a moment released her hold, but cheered [Charles] Nalle and his friends with her voice, and struggled with the officers until they were literally worn out with their exertions, and Nalle was separated from them," Nalle's lawyer, Martin Townsend of Troy, said later in [Harriet] Tubman's biography, Harriet [Tubman]: The Moses of Her People.