State v. White
Oregon Supreme Court
From Multnomah. Arthur L. Frazer, Judge. Statement by Mr. Justice Hailey. This is a prosecution for kidnapping against James White and others. In February, 1903, the defendants were partners in conducting a sailor boarding house in Portland, Oregon, and also engaged in furnishing crews to vessels in that port.
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From Multnomah. Arthur L. Frazer, Judge. Statement by Mr. Justice Hailey. This is a prosecution for kidnapping against James White and others. In February, 1903, the defendants were partners in conducting a sailor boarding house in Portland, Oregon, and also engaged in furnishing crews to vessels in that port. On the 11th of that month the prosecuting witness, Burén, a sailor, and two sailor friends, Cyren and Pearson, were in Portland, but were not staying at the boarding house of the defendants. In the forenoon of that day they went to the British consul’s office and signed shipping…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Hailey
*4211. The information was filed under Section 1774, B. & C. Comp., and charged that defendants did. without lawful, or any, authority, unlawfully and feloniously and forcibly seize, confine, inveigle and kidnap one C. A. Burén, with the intent of them, the said defendants,' unlawfully and feloniously to cause him, the said Burén, against his will, to be sent out of the State of Oregon and into the State of Washington. A demurrer was filed to the information, but the only ground urged at the hearing was that it charged more than one crime, "in that it charges that the defendants did forcibly seize…
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