United States v. Bridleman

DEADY, District Judge.

On July 7, 1881, an information was filed in this court by the district attorney charging the defendant with the larceny of a blanket from an Indian on the Umatilla Indian reservation in this district. The defendant pleaded not guilty, and the case was submitted to the court upon an agreed state of facts, to stand as and for a special verdict, as follows:

On July 1, 1881, the defendant, a white man, feloniously took and carried away from the Umatilla Indian reservation in the district of Oregon, then under charge of an Indian agent, a blanket of the value of two dollars,…