The Western States
Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
Appeals from the District Court of the United States for the Western District of New York.
1Opinion of the Court
WARD, Circuit Judge.
The libelant was a passenger September 12, 1901, on the steamboat Western States from the city of Buffalo to the city of Detroit. At about 2 in the morning she was awakened by hearing a man in her stateroom. lie went out, but in a short time came back, put a cloth with chloroform on it over her face, held her forcibly down in her berth until she was unconscious, and then took her rings from her fingers, her watch from under her pillow, and about $38 in money from her purse. When she regained consciousness, she found she had been very sick at her stomach, and, putting on a…
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