Edward Lucas, James Topping for contempt
Date: attachment June 22, 1859
1st District. Funds for digitization provided by Mr. Steve Peckel in memory of William Chalfant.

Governor Clyde M. Reed correspondence, Ethel C. Blades land rights
Creator: Kansas. Governor (1929-1931 : Reed)
Date: 1929-1931
This file includes subject correspondence relating to the case of Ethel C. Blades regarding her rights of inherited land. This file is part of a bigger collection of Governor Clyde M. Reed correspondence.

In re Walter McGee, George Andrews, and George Buckner, petitioners, Kansas Supreme Court case no. 22,691
Creator: Kansas. Supreme Court
Date: July term 1919
Kansas Supreme Court case no. 22,691, In re Walter McGee, George Andrews, and George Buckner, petitioners, was a challenge to Chapter 205 of the Kansas Laws of 1917. The law permitted the State Board of Health to enact a policy of quarantining men (and women), without a hearing, for the purpose of controlling the spread of venereal diseases. The Kansas State Quarantine Camp for Men, at the State Penitentiary in Lansing, was the place designated for isolating and treating the men, who were taken into custody in Topeka after being examined by the City Health Officer. Topeka passed its own version of the state law, ordinance no. 4832, in 1918, and copies of the ordinance are included in this file. The Kansas Supreme Court denied the petitioners' "application for a writ of habeas corpus" (claim that the state had detained them unlawfully) stating that the State Board of Health's actions were not unreasonable. The attorney representing the petitioners was Elisha Scott, a prominent African American attorney, whose firm later handled the Brown v. Topeka Board of Education case.

Kansas State Temperance Union legal documents
Date: 1907-1908
This bound volume contains affidavits, warrants, and legal briefs naming the State of Kansas as plaintiff for cases pertaining to the sale of alcohol. The Kansas State Temperance Union actively prosecuted the "unlawful and illegal sales of intoxicating liquors." Although Kansas was the first state to adopt a constitutional amendment prohibiting the sale of intoxicating liquors, the law was largely unenforced. This volume includes accusations that Daniel Read Anthony, Jr. knowingly allowed the sale of alcohol to occur on his property. Kansas Attorney General F. S. Jackson is frequently mentioned throughout the volume. Due to water damage, some text is illegible or difficult to read.

Kansas Territory, U.S. District Court versus Captain John Brown and others
Date: August 26, 1856
Affidavit of Forsyth H. Taff made before Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of the Kansas Territory, Samuel D. Lecompte. Taff accused John Brown, J. B. Abbott, Samuel Walker, and Charles Lenhart of raiding the town of Franklin on August 12, 1856.

Kansas Territory, U.S. District Court versus John Brown
Date: October 24, 1857
Writ ordering the capture of John Brown for the crime of rebellion at Fort Scott in Bourbon County, Kansas. The order was served by E. S. Dennis per United States Deputy Marshall John Little on October 28, 1857.

Kansas Territory, U.S. District Court versus John Brown, Carter, and Lenhart
Date: July 09, 1856
Warrant issued by Joseph W. Shepard, a justice of the peace for Lecompton Township in Douglas County, Kansas for the arrest of John Brown, Mr. Carter, and Charles Lenhart for larceny. The three men were charged with taking goods, clothes, a mule, and a pony.

Kansas Territory, U.S. District Court versus John Brown, Jr.
Date: March 06, 1860-June 21, 1860
Materials relating to the case of the Kansas Territory, U.S. District Court versus John Brown Jr. on the charge of contempt.

Kansas Territory, U.S. District Court versus John Brown, Jr. for horse stealing
Date: 1856-1857
Materials relating to the case of the Kansas Territory, U.S. District Court versus John Brown, Jr., on the charge of grand larceny for stealing a horse from George R. Hopper on May 23, 1856 in Lykins County, Kansas (now Miami County). Second District Judge Sterling G. Cato issued a subpeona for the testimony of Thomas Kelly, Charles A. Foster, Samuel M. Merrill, Joseph B. Higgins, William Collis, Harvey Jackson, and William Chestnut.

Kansas Territory, U.S. District Court versus John Brown, Nelson King, and James Cline for horse stealing
Date: October 06, 1856
Writ addressed to the sheriff of Lykins County (now Miami County) ordering the apprehension of John Brown, Nelson King, and James Cline for stealing two horses.

Kansas Territory, U.S. District Court versus John Brown Sr., Owen Brown, Frederick Brown, Salmon Brown, Oliver Brown, et al.
Date: 1856
Materials relating to the murder trial following the Pottawatomie Massacre in Franklin County, Kansas on May 24, 1856. A memorandum charges that John Brown Sr. and James Townsley robbed the Shermanville post office, presumably in connection with Postmaster Allen Wilkinson's death during the massacre. Judge Sterling G. Cato ordered the arrest of John Brown Sr., Owen Brown, Frederick Brown, Salmon Brown, Oliver Brown, Henry Thompson, Theodore Weiner, and James Townsley for the murders of including Allen Wilkinson, William Sherman, James P. Doyle, William Doyle, and Drury Doyle. Two affidavits from George W. Grant and Joseph B. Higgins are also included.

Kansas Territory, U.S. District Court versus John Brown and others for conspiracy
Date: 1856-1858
Materials relating to the case of the Kansas Territory, U.S. District Court versus John Brown, John Brown Jr., O. C. Brown, O. V. Dayton, Alexander Gardner, Richard Mendenhall, Charles A. Foster, Charles H. Crane, William Partridge, and William Chestnut, on the charge of conspiracy.

Kansas Territory, U.S. District Court versus John Brown and others for horse stealing
Date: 1856
Materials relating to the case of the Kansas Territory, U.S. District Court versus John Brown, Owen Brown, James Townsley, and Thomas Weiner on the charge of horse stealing. Henry Sherman ("Dutch Henry") signs an affidavit identifying the men as the theives on the evening on the Pottawatomie Massacre in Franklin County, Kansas on May 24, 1856.

Kansas Territory, U.S. District Court versus John Brown for assault of Richard Henry Gillmore
Date: August 03, 1857-August 06, 1857
Materials relating to the case of the Kansas Territory, U.S. District Court versus John Brown, on the charge of assault. Richard Henry Gillmore accused John Brown of threatening to shoot him on August 1, 1857 in Douglas County, Kansas.

Kansas Territory versus A. A. Jamison for grand larceny
Date: date of crime November 20, 1856; indictment November 1856
2nd District. Funds for digitization provided by Mr. Steve Peckel in memory of William Chalfant.

Kansas Territory versus A. A. Jamison for grand larceny
Date: date of crime November 20, 1856; indictment November 1856
2nd District. Funds for digitization provided by Mr. Steve Peckel in memory of William Chalfant.

Kansas Territory versus A. C. Hindman for selling liquor without a license
Date: date of crime April 1, 1856; indictment April 1856
2nd District. Funds for digitization provided by Mr. Steve Peckel in memory of William Chalfant.

Kansas Territory versus A. C. Hindman for selling liquor without a license
Date: date of crime April 1, 1856; indictment April 1856
2nd District. Funds for digitization provided by Mr. Steve Peckel in memory of William Chalfant.

Kansas Territory versus A. C. Hindman for selling liquor without a license
Date: date of crime April 1, 1856; indictment April 1856
2nd District. Funds for digitization provided by Mr. Steve Peckel in memory of William Chalfant.

Kansas Territory versus A. C. Hinmann for receiving stolen goods
Date: date of crime January 3, 1856
Douglas county. Funds for digitization provided by Mr. Steve Peckel in memory of William Chalfant.

Kansas Territory versus A. Hindman for selling liquor without a license
Date: date of crime April 1, 1856; indictment April 1856
1st District. Funds for digitization provided by Mr. Steve Peckel in memory of William Chalfant.

Kansas Territory versus A. J. Armstrong, Frederick Bartles, and Charles Walker for assault
Date: crime December 1856
This is the case file for the case against A. J. Armstrong, Frederick Bartles, and Charles Walker for assaulting W. M. Clark on December 11, 1856 near Tecumseh, Kansas Territory. Clark reported to a justice of the peace that Armstrong and his associates Walker and Bartles attempted to attack him and threatened to kill him as the result of a dispute over land ownership between Clark and Armstrong. The three men were arrested December 11, 1856 and released on bond December 12, 1856. The trial was set for the 1857 spring term of the U. S. District Court of the Kansas Territory, Second District.

Kansas Territory versus A. J. Armstrong for assault on Orlando Moffitt
Date: crime January 1857; warrant January 1857
This case file relates to the charge against A. J. Armstrong for assaulting Orlando Moffitt on January 31,1857 in Shawnee County, Kansas Territory. Moffitt reported to a Justice of the Peace Henry Carmichael on January 31st that Armstrong had shot at him and threatened his life while Moffitt was building a log cabin. Armstrong was apprehended and released on bond in February of 1857, with his trial set for the next term of the 3rd U.S. District Court.

Kansas Territory versus A. J. Miller for grand larceny
Date: date May 8, 1858
2nd District. Funds for digitization provided by Mr. Steve Peckel in memory of William Chalfant.

Kansas Territory versus A. J. Patrick for murder
Date: date of crime September 14, 1856
2nd District. Funds for digitization provided by Mr. Steve Peckel in memory of William Chalfant.