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This case file contains an indictment and warrant related to the charge against John Ballard for giving liquor to an Indian on September 11, 1858 in Linn County, Kansas Territory. Ballard was indicted during the October term of the Third District Court of the Kansas Territory for providing a member of the Miami tribe with one glass of whiskey. A warrant for Ballard's arrest was issued on October 23, 1858 and returned unexecuted. In 1832, Congress passed an act making it illegal to sell alcohol on Native American lands.
Date: crime September 11, 1858; indictment October 1858
Item Number: 444742
Call Number: Kansas Territory Criminal Case Files, Box 4, Folder 35
KSHS Identifier: DaRT ID: 444742
Collections - State Archives - U. S. District Court of Kansas (Kansas Territory) - Criminal Case Files
Date - 1854-1860 - 1858
Government and Politics - Crime and Punishment - Crime - Alcohol
Government and Politics - Federal Government - Courts - United States District Courts
Government and Politics - Territorial Government - Courts - Third Judicial District
Objects and Artifacts - Communication Artifacts - Documentary Artifact - Case file
Objects and Artifacts - Communication Artifacts - Documentary Artifact - Record, Judicial
Objects and Artifacts - Communication Artifacts - Documentary Artifact - Warrant
People - American Indians - Tribes - Miami
Places - Counties - Linn
Places - Indian reservations - Miami
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Type of Material - Unpublished documents - Government records - Case files
Type of Material - Unpublished documents - Legal documents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/444742