United States v. Lloyd
U.S. Circuit Court for the District of Southern New York
This was an application by one Samuel Marlor, founded on a petition and affidavits, showing that he was imprisoned as a witness in behalf of the United States, and praying that he might be discharged from such imprisonment on his own recognizance or on reduced bail.
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This was an application by one Samuel Marlor, founded on a petition and affidavits, showing that he was imprisoned as a witness in behalf of the United States, and praying that he might be discharged from such imprisonment on his own recognizance or on reduced bail. He was arrested at the instance of the district attorney, in the latter part of March, upon a warrant issued pursuant to the seventh section of the act of August 8, 1846 (9 Stat. 73, 74), and required to give bail to appear as a witness in criminal prosecutions pending in this court against John Lloyd. Failing to furnish the ball…
1Opinion of the Court
BETTS, District Judge.
The petitioner is a non-resident of this district, and had, when he was arrested, just returned from a voyage to England, after an absence of several months. The indictments against Lloyd charge a series of frauds committed by him against the revenue laws, by the falsification <5f invoices, and by other criminal acts accompanying the importation of goods to this port from foreign countries, to a large amount, and continued for a considerable period of time. Marlor was, during a portion, if not the whole of the time, a confidential clerk of Lloyd, and it was upon his…
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