Territory of Washington County of Spokane } ss
In the district court of the Fourth Judicial District of the Territory of Washington holding terms at Cheney in the county of Spokane for the counties of Spokane Lincoln and Douglas.
The territory of Washington
vs.
S.P. White }
Indictment for murder in second degree
S.P. White whose full Christian name is to the grand jury unknown in accused by the grand jury of the Counties of Spokane Lincoln and Douglas in said Territory and the district aforesaid by this indictment of the crime of murder in the second degree committed as follows:
The said S.P. White on the Twenty first day of December AD 1884 in the county of Lincoln in the Territory of Washington and the district aforesaid in and upon one Amos Light Beardon feloniously wilfully purposefully and by his malice aforethought did make an assault and that the said S.P. White a certain revolving pistol, then and there charged with gun powder and one leaden bullet, then and there feloniously wilfully purposely and by his malice aforethought did discharge and shoot off to against, and upon the said Amos Light Beardon; and that the said S.P. White, with the leaden bullet aforesaid and by this pistol aforesaid then and there by the force of the gun powder aforesaid by the said S.P. White discharged and shot off as aforesaid then and there feloniously wilfully purposely and of his own malice aforethought did strike penetrate and wound the said Amos Light Beardon in and upon the left side of the body of the said Amos Light Beardon giving to the said Amos Light Beardon then and there with the leaden bullet aforesaid so as aforesaid discharged and shot and of the pistol aforesaid by the said S.P. White in and upon the left side of the body of the said Ames Light Beardon one mortal wound of the depth of six inches and of the breadth of one-quarter of an inch of which said mortal wound the said Amos Light Beardon from the said twenty-first day of December A.D. 1884 until the twenty second day of the same month of December A.D. 1884 in the county aforesaid did languish, and languishing did live on which said twenty-third day of December A.D. 1884 the said Amos Light Beardon at the county aforesaid of the mortal wound aforesaid died. And so the Grand jury aforesaid upon their oath do say that the said S.P. White the said Ames Light Beardon in the manner and by the means aforesaid feloniously, wilfully, purposely and of his malice aforethought did kill and murder, against the peace and dignity of the Territory of Washington and contrary to Uniform of the statute in such case make and provided.
Dated at Cheney in the District aforesaid the 17th day of April A.D. 1885
S. C. Hyde
Prosecuting Attorney
Names of Witnesses examined before the Grand Jury
H. S. Beardon J. L. Beardon
Charles Prindle H. Portch
O. J. Rogers J. Cody
E. A. Portch Mrs. M. A. Lisle
Frank Beardon
