Malcolmson v. Gibbons

Plaintiff was arrested without process by Gibbons, who was marshal of Alpena, on Saturday evening, September 30, 1884, upon information received in a letter from Philadelphia, the date of which is not given in the record. At 8 .o’clock in the evening, Gibbons, who had previously learned that he was regularly employed at his trade in the city, and knew the place, was watching at the post-office to see whether he got his mail from box 64, which was the box he was said to own. At about 10 in the evening, as plaintiff swears,. Gibbons arrested him and took him to the police station, where he was…