United States v. The Alexander

TRUITT, District Judge.

The libel of information in this case was duly filed July 11, 1893. It alleges that the schooner Alexander was seized, on or about the 2d day of July, 1893, at or near Chirikoff island, within the district of Alaska, by Capt. C. L. Hooper, commander of the United States revenue steamer Rush, and was then in proper custody at Sitka, Alaska. The cause of seizure, as set out in the libel, is as follows: “That the said vessel, her master, officers, and crew, had been engaged in killing, and did on the 5th day of June, 1893, in latitude 56° 16' north, longitude 154° 24'…