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Show SCOOPED AGAIN! Ynndercook Appeals the Habeas Corpus Case to tlie Snpreme Court of the United States, Which Canses Wailing and Gnashing of Teeth Among the Spotters and Prostitntes. For It Is Now Ont of Their Hands, and Will Be a Precedent for Others. i This morning an application was made to the Judge of the District Court for an appeal in the case of Oscar Vandercook to the Supreme Court. The Judge made an order allowing the appeal upon the filing to-daj of a bond in the sum of $1,000. At 2 o'clock this afternoon Idark McKimmins and C. C. Glaufield sigued the bond as sureties, and thereupon there-upon Judge Zane made an order directing the release of the defendant pending the appeal to the Supreme Court of the United States. This action is based upon the 9th section of the Organic Act of the' Compiled Laws of Utah, which states in effect that writs of appeal shall be allowed to be decided by the said Supreme Su-preme Court, without regard to the value of the matter, or title in controversy, and upon any writ of habeas corpus involving the question of personal freedom! FOLLOWING IS THE NOTICE. To the United States District Attorney for tlx Territory of Utah: You are hereby notified that the applicant appli-cant in the above entitled proceeding, Oscar. Vandercook, will take his appeal from the judgment herein rendered by the Judge of said Court on the 11th of December, 1885, to the Supreme Court of the United States. Oscar Vandercook. Per Sutherland & McBride, Attorneys for Applicant. PETITION. To the Hon. Charles S. Zane, Judge of the Tliird District Court: -Your petitioner, Oscar Vandercook, prays for the allowance of an appeal from the judgment made and rendered in this proceeding on the 11th day of December, 1885, by the Court aforesaid, to. the Supreme Su-preme Court of the United States. Oscar Vandercook. Decembet 12th, 1885. ORDER. The appeal prayed in the above -proceedings and from the judgment rendered therein is hereby allowed, and the bail of the said Oscar Vandercook is hereby fixed, pending said appeal, at the sum of $1,000, with two sufficient sureties. C. S. Zane, Judge. ORDER FOR RELEASE. I In the First District Court of Die Third Judicial District, Territory of Utah. I, Charles S. Zane, Judge of the said Court, do hereby approve the foregoing bond as good and sufficient, and it appearing ap-pearing to me that the appeal in this matter has been perfected, I hereby order that said Oscar Vandercook be released pending the hearing of said appeal from custody. C. S. Zane, Judge. |