United States v. Watkins
U.S. Circuit Court for the District of District of Columbia
The defendant in this case was arrested on the 1st of May, 1829, in Philadelphia, by a warrant issued at the instance of the United States, upon an affidavit made before a justice of the peace in Washington, D. C., by Mr. Amos Kendall, who, on the 23d of March, 1829, was appointed to the office of 4th auditor in the place of the defendant, who was sent for trial to Washington, by a warrant issued by Judge Hopkinson, under the 33d section of the judiciary act of 1789. In the…
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The defendant in this case was arrested on the 1st of May, 1829, in Philadelphia, by a warrant issued at the instance of the United States, upon an affidavit made before a justice of the peace in Washington, D. C., by Mr. Amos Kendall, who, on the 23d of March, 1829, was appointed to the office of 4th auditor in the place of the defendant, who was sent for trial to Washington, by a warrant issued by Judge Hopkinson, under the 33d section of the judiciary act of 1789. In the progress of the cause a number of indictments were successively found by the grand jury, and were, in some instances, so…
1Opinion of the CourtCrajnch, Chief Judge
The substance of the first indictment is: That Tobias Watkins, being fourth auditor of the treasury of the United States, and intending fraudulently to obtain, for his own use, money. of the United States, falsely and fraudulently wrote a letter to J. K. Paulding, a navy agent of the United States, advising him of his (T. W.'s) draft on him for 8500, to be charged to “arrearages,” and that he would receive a treasury draft for the same, to meet it. That T. W. drew such a draft, and sold it to C. S. Fowler for, and received of him, the same amount, and applied it to his own use. That the said…
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