Tucker v. Common Council

A murder having been committed in Grand Rapids, the board of police commissioners took upon itself the responsibility of arranging, through the superintendent of police, with relator, for the boarding of one Ida Woods (and child), who was supposed to be the mistress of one Macard, who was suspected of the crime. By a similar arrangement made with the board, one Prame, who had been convicted of the same offense of murder before the superior court, was furnished with board while confined at the police station, under suspended sentence, to which place said court remanded him upon his plea of…