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Virginia Argus
Richmond, Virginia
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In Baltimore on September 1, Judge Houston examined the case of French prisoners from the ship Othello, ruling the crime occurred in Maryland state jurisdiction near Calvert County in the Chesapeake, not federal. Prisoners committed to Baltimore County sheriff for trial there.
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FRENCH PRISONERS.
Yesterday Judge Houston, the district judge of the United States, for the district of Maryland, proceeded in the examination of the affair of the Othello, and took the deposition of Mr. Harden, a passenger on board the ship--after which the judge decided that the crime for which the French prisoners then in the custody of the Marshal, were committed, was committed within the jurisdiction of the state of Maryland, and that the United States' court had no cognizance of it.
The prisoners were then committed to the custody of the sheriff of Baltimore county, by Mr. Coale, the register of the city, who attended agreeably to the request of the judge, the mayor not being able to attend on account of indisposition.
It is understood that Calvert county is the nearest land to the place in the Chesapeake, where the crime was committed, therefore the court of that county alone has jurisdiction: and that the prisoners will be tried there.
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Baltimore, Maryland
Event Date
September 1
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prisoners committed to custody of baltimore county sheriff; to be tried in calvert county court
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Judge Houston examined affair of ship Othello, took deposition of passenger Mr. Harden, decided crime committed within Maryland state jurisdiction in Chesapeake near Calvert County, United States court has no cognizance; prisoners transferred from Marshal to sheriff by Mr. Coale as mayor indisposed