Case Summary

Harry L. Davis was a fugitive from justice in Kings County in New York and had a warrant out for his arrest for his crime of grand larceny. He obtained $335 worth of goods of H. W. T. Mall & Company by false pretenses. The call for his arrest and subsequently the warrant traveled through authorities starting in the police department in New York City, through Missouri, with Davis finally being arrested in Omaha. The writ was allowed but Davis was not discharged from prison.

Case Information

Petition type(s)

• Carceral

Petition subtype(s)

• Fugitive from justice
• Grand larceny

Outcome

Writ denied

Fate of bound party

Remained in custody

Case Citation

History Nebraska, RG230 Douglas County Records, Subgroup 10: District Court, 1855-1972, Series 2: General Index Books & Court Journals, Vol. 38: Mar. 7, 1895 - Aug. 23, 1895, pp. 117-8, 129; Douglas County District Court, Civil Appearance Docket Files, Project No. 45, Roll 653: Doc. 49-378 to 49-400, No. 49-383

Source material(s)

Case File | Journal

Length of case file

Between 21 and 30 pages

Repository(s)

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

State

• Nebraska

People

• Scott, Cunningham R. (judge)
• Davis, Harry L. (bound party)
• Davis, Harry L. (petitioner)
• Gilbert, William O. (petitioner attorney)
• Mostyn, Patrick (holding party)
• Mostyn, Patrick (respondent)
• Mostyn, Patrick (responding party)
• Byrnes, Thomas (authority ordering detention)
• McLaughlin, William (authority ordering detention)

• Additional parties

  Seaves, W. S. (chief of police in NY)

  Jacobs, Philips (Aided with search in Omaha)

  Berka, Louis (police judge of Omaha)

  Drexel, John C. (sheriff)

  Mahoney, John J. (deputy)

  Moore, Frank E. (clerk)