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These legal documents relate to the case of the Kansas Territory vs. Thomas Burke for selling liquor on a Sunday in Leavenworth County, Kansas Territory on September 6, 1857. Burke was indicted during the September term of 1857 by the U. S. District Court of the Kansas Territory, First District. Burke was arrested and released on bond September 26, 1858.
Date: September 1857 - May 17, 1859
Item Number: 444842
Call Number: Kansas Territory Criminal Case Files, Box 5, Folder 61
KSHS Identifier: DaRT ID: 444842
Collections - State Archives - U. S. District Court of Kansas (Kansas Territory) - Criminal Case Files
Date - 1854-1860 - 1857
Date - 1854-1860 - 1858
Date - 1854-1860 - 1859
Government and Politics - Crime and Punishment - Crime - Alcohol
Government and Politics - Federal Government - Courts - United States District Courts
Government and Politics - Territorial Government - Courts - First 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
Places - Cities and towns - Leavenworth
Places - Counties - Leavenworth
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Type of Material - Unpublished documents - Government records - Case files
Type of Material - Unpublished documents - Legal documents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/444842
