Case Summary

Rose Baker was forcibly arrested when she was asleep in her room by a police officer without a warrant on June 3rd, 1912. The petition said no complaint had been filed in any court nor any warrants. The next day, Rose was taken before a judge and they filed a complaint charging her with being willfully idle, which constituted a misdemeanor under city ordinances. Baker entered a plea of guilty and asked the court to pronounce judgement, which they did not do. The petition was filed also because she was being kept without due process of law. A affidavit in forma pauperis was also filed for Rose Baker. A demurrer of respondent was also written that the petitioner "does not state facts sufficient to entitle the petitioner to have said writ of habeas issued". The fate of the writ and Rose Baker is unknown and not included in this case file.

Case Information

Petition type(s)

• Carceral

Petition subtype(s)

• Idleness

Sites of significance

• Seattle City Jail (Seattle, Washington)

Outcome

Unknown

Fate of bound party

Unknown

Case Citation

RG 21: US District Court, Western Division of Washington, Seattle. No. 2185

Source material(s)

Case File

Case document transcriptions

• hc.case.wa.0174.001
• hc.case.wa.0174.002
• hc.case.wa.0174.003

Length of case file

Between 6 and 10 pages

Repository(s)

• National Archives and Records Administration, Seattle Branch, Washington (Seattle, WA) (Seattle, Washington)

State

• Washington

Tag(s)

• Abnormal procedure

People

• Baker, Rose (petitioner)
• Baker, Rose (bound party)
• Sullivan, John M. (respondent)
• Sullivan, John M. (responding party)
• Sullivan, John M. (holding party)
• Bradford, James E. (respondent attorney)
• Snook, Herbert E. (petitioner attorney)
• Hanford, Cornelius Holgate (judge)
• Gordon, John B. (authority ordering detention)
• Pierce, R. S. (respondent attorney)

• Additional parties

  Engle, A. W. (Clerk)

  Humphrey (Police officer)

  Snook, Herbert E. (Notary Public)