Case Summary

In December 1875, William Martz was arrested and jailed in Pacific County, Washington after two men, Hiram Wing and Hiram Paulding, declared to a justice of the peace that they would "not be responsible for the conduct" of Martz any longer. Martz petitioned for a writ of habeas corpus in the territorial district court, which was granted. His fate is unknown.

Case Information

Petition type(s)

• Carceral

Petition subtype(s)

• Cause unspecified

Outcome

Unknown

Fate of bound party

Unknown

Case Citation

Cowlitz County Government, Clerk, Civil and Criminal Case Files, 1876-1986, unspecified number

Source material(s)

Case File

Length of case file

Between 6 and 10 pages

Repository(s)

• Washington State Archives, Southwest Regional Branch (Olympia, WA) (Olympia, Washington)

State

• Washington

People

• Martz, William C. F. (petitioner)
• Whitcomb, James H. (respondent)
• Bell, O. F. (petitioner attorney)
• Wilson, George W. (authority ordering detention)
• Greene, Roger Sherman (R. S.) (judge)
• Martz, William C. F. (bound party)
• Whitcomb, James H. (responding party)
• Whitcomb, James H. (holding party)

• Additional parties

  Houghton, Joseph H. (clerk)

  Holt, H. H. (deputy clerk)

  Stevens, H. K. (notary public)

  Wing, Hiram (unspecified)

  Paulding, Hiram W. (unspecified)