Ada County ID Archives History .....Stephen J. Henderson Released June 3, 1876
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Christine Storey chrissy_7@q.com February 27, 2010, 11:39 pm

  On Thursday an appeal to the Supreme Court was taken against the judgement of 
the Court below in the case of the United States vs. Stephen J. Henderson for 
embracery.
  The bonds in this case have been fixed at $500. In view of the facts which 
have came to light, proving how unjustly Mr. Henderson was accused in the case 
for mail robbery, the bonds in that case have been lowered from $3000 to $500.
He has given the required bonds and is again in the bosom of his family, and 
allowed to breath the pure air of heaven.
  What looks strange in this matter is that Mr. Henderson's attorney should 
have allowed him to lay in the penitentiary for seven weeks, when he might have 
been kept from the penitentiary as far as the charge of embracery is concerned, 
if his attornies had taken an appeal immediately after the termination of the 
trial. It was clearly their duty to have done this because, should the Supreme 
Court  order a new trial, the seven weeks of imprisonment which Mr. Henderson 
has suffered will count as nothing. And it seems rather strange that as soon as 
the real robbers were captured, Mr. Henderson was not brought before the Judge 
on a writ of Habeas corpus and discharged from custody for mail robbery, of 
which it is now positively known he was innocent. We can see no excuse for this 
unless it is that Mr. Henderson's attorney's were certain that the old fogy 
Chief Justice of this territory would grant nothing until the public would 
express their desire by a petition.

Additional Comments:
Stephen J. Henderson or aka Three Fingered Jackson. Boise Prison.

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