United States v. Hughes
District Court, E.D. South Carolina
Examination of Samuel Hughes upon a charge of conducting a military expedition in violation of Rev. St. § 5286. Edward B. Whitney, Asst. Atty. Gen., and W. Perry Murphy, for United States.
1Opinion of the Court
■BRAWLEY, District Judge.
The American steamship Laurada, owned in Philadelphia, was chartered by Kerr & Go., in September, for two voyages to the West Indies, and sailed during that month for Port Anton, in the Island of Jamaica, with an assorted cargo of merchandise; and, although it appears from the testimony in this case that she had no quarters for passengers, it was in evidence that upon that voyage she carried 86 Italian laborers to work upon a railroad in the Island of Jamaica. Upon her return voyage she *973brought a cargo of fruit, and, after discharging the same in the port of New York,…
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