- Date
- 1851
- Concepts
- Strang eramormonismstrangite-communitygovernmentcommunication
Twenty-six pages from the federal criminal case against James J. Strang and ten other Beaver Island residents — Elias Rice, Orrin Hill, Warren Post, William Hull, George Miller, Asa B. Fields, John Brown, David Brown, Jonathan Pierce and Isaac Pierce — for obstructing the United States mail and assaulting a mail carrier, heard in the Southern (Detroit) Division of the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan.
The pages are manuscript trial record rather than a summary: witness testimony taken down in longhand, with counsel’s objections noted in the margin as they were made.
Sources
- Page 5 opened and read: cross-examination of postmaster Charles R. Wright, marginal notes 'Objected to by Counsel for Strang' and 'Objection by Mr. McReynolds', men sent to Garden Island to inform LeBlanc, and the postmaster's statement that 'the regular issue of the Northern Islander was in the mail'.images · commons · case_file · us-v-strang-1851-mail-obstruction · page_098
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Beaver Island Archive, “United States v. James J. Strang and others, 1851: obstructing the mail”, https://beaverislandarchive.org/documents/us-v-strang-1851-mail-obstruction/, accessed [date], citing Wikimedia Commons, United States v. James J. Strang and others, 1851: obstructing the mail.
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