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This case file contains an indictment, summons, and bond relating to the case against Richard Ballard for selling liquor to Samuel Hawley, a member of the Miami Tribe, on November 20, 1859 on the Miami Reservation in the Kansas Territory. The Miami Reservation was located in parts of present-day Miami and Linn counties. Hawley was indicted by the Third District Court of the Kansas Territory in Fort Scott during the court's fall session. Selling liquor on Native American lands was illegal in the United States from 1832-1953.
Date: crime November 20, 1859; indictment December 1859
Item Number: 444744
Call Number: Kansas Territory Criminal Case Files, Box 4, Folder 37
KSHS Identifier: DaRT ID: 444744
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 - Alcohol
Government and Politics - Crime and Punishment - Vice - Alcohol use
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 - Cities and towns - Fort Scott
Places - Counties - Bourbon
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Type of Material - Unpublished documents - Government records - Case files
Type of Material - Unpublished documents - Legal documents
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