Case Summary

Andrew Anderson was arrested by Hudson, a policeman of Spokane, Washington, from the order of the sheriff of Spokane, charging Anderson with being a fugitive from justice of the state of Washington. He was imprisoned without any complaint for said offense or warrant being issued from Omaha. He made a petition that alleged he was unlawfully deprived for vagrancy charges and it was found that the vagrancy charges were not issued in good faith but were made to subterfuge to aid the requisition from Washington. He was released and then arrested again in the corridor of the court house upon a complaint ordered by the judge of the omaha police court with having opposed and resisted a police officer in May. The judge, Scott, decided that Anderson was unlawfully deprived of his liberty.

Case Information

Petition type(s)

• Carceral

Petition subtype(s)

• Vagrancy
• Fugitive from justice

Sites of significance

• Omaha City Jail (Omaha, Nebraska)

Outcome

Writ allowed

Fate of bound party

Released from custody

Case Citation

History Nebraska, RG230 Douglas County Records, Subgroup 10: District Court, 1855-1972, Series 2: General Index Books & Court Journals, Vol. 29: May 7, 1894 - Oct. 22, 1894, pp. 179, 182, 188-90; Douglas County District Court, Civil Appearance Docket Files, Project No. 45, Roll 598: Doc. 44-387 to 45-22, No. 45-15

Source material(s)

Journal | Case File | Index

Length of case file

Between 11 and 20 pages

Related petitions

• In the matter of the re-application of Andrew Anderson for a writ of Habeas Corpus

Repository(s)

• History Nebraska (Lincoln, Nebraska)
• Douglas County District Court (Omaha, Nebraska)

State

• Nebraska

Tag(s)

• Punitive vagrancy

People

• Anderson, Andrew (petitioner)
• Anderson, Andrew (bound party)
• Elliott, Theodore F. (petitioner attorney)
• Scott, Cunningham R. (judge)
• Seavey, Webber S. (W. F.) (holding party)
• Seavey, Webber S. (W. F.) (respondent)
• Seavey, Webber S. (W. F.) (responding party)
• Bebout, Alvin Adams (holding party)
• Bebout, Alvin Adams (respondent)
• Bebout, Alvin Adams (responding party)
• Shoemaker, W. S. (authority ordering detention)

• Additional parties

  Moore, Frank E. (clerk)

  Hudson, William H. (policeman of Spokane, WA)

  Roseuiweiq, H. (deputy)

  Drexel, John C. (sheriff)

  Berka, Louis (police judge of omaha)

  Cotton, R. S. (charged alongside Anderson for vagrancy)

  Johnson, Chalmar (charged with Anderson)

  Daily, Haus (charged with Anderson)

  Brown, W. S. (charged with Anderson)

  Williams, John (charged with Anderson)

  Waller, Sam (charged with Anderson)

  Bevins, Chas (charged with Anderson)

  Russell, James (charged with Anderson)

  Sullivan, Jerry (charged with Anderson)

  Humphrey, Harry (sheriff of Spokane)