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These legal documents relate to the case of the United States vs. Neil Campbell for trespass on school lands. Campbell was accused of cutting down and taking trees and timber on November 1, 1859 from land owned by the government to fund public schools in Breckinridge County, west of present-day Emporia in Lyon County, Kansas Territory. Campbell was indicted by the Second District Court in Lecompton during the November term of 1859.
Date: November 1859 - May 21, 1860
Item Number: 444875
Call Number: Kansas Territory Criminal Case Files, Box 6, Folder 29
KSHS Identifier: DaRT ID: 444875
Collections - State Archives - U. S. District Court of Kansas (Kansas Territory) - Criminal Case Files
Date - 1854-1860 - 1859
Date - 1854-1860 - 1860
Government and Politics - Crime and Punishment - Crime - Trespass
Government and Politics - Federal Government - Courts - United States District Courts
Government and Politics - Territorial Government - Courts - Second Judicial District
Objects and Artifacts - Communication Artifacts - Documentary Artifact - Case file
Objects and Artifacts - Communication Artifacts - Documentary Artifact - Record, Judicial
Places - Cities and towns - Emporia
Places - Counties - Breckinridge (1855-1862)
Places - Counties - Lyon
Thematic Time Period - Bleeding Kansas, 1854 - 1861
Type of Material - Unpublished documents - Government records - Case files
Type of Material - Unpublished documents - Legal documents
http://www.kansasmemory.org/item/444875