In re Neill

BDATCHFORD, District Judge.

On the 4th of January, 1871, a petition was presented to the Honorable John H. MeCunn, a judge of the superior court of the city of New York, by one John Casey. The petition set forth, that the said Casey “is at present restrained of his liberty at Fort Columbus, a military depot, in the port of New York; that said John Casey is a minor and under the age of twenty-one years;” and that “the cause or pretence of such imprisonment and restraint, according to the best knowledge and belief of your petitioner, is, that said John Casey, while such minor as aforesaid,…