People v. Congdon

This is a very singular case, and the result of the trial in the court below is astonishing, and almost incomprehensible. Gordon Congdon is the grandfather and Desire Rosenbach the mother of Lizzie Austin, a girl about 14 years of age at the time of the trial. *352Charles Bosenbach is the husband of Desire Bosenbach. The defendants were informed against in the circuit court for the county of Berrien, under the statute, for the abduction of the said Lizzie Austin.

Section 9099, How. Stat., reads as follows:

“Every person who willfully, and without lawful authority, shall forcibly or secretly confine…