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Bean, Roy (1825-1903) [Order requiring Roy Bean to answer charge of assault with intent to kill]

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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC05291 Author/Creator: Bean, Roy (1825-1903) Place Written: Los Angeles, California Type: Manuscript document signed Date: 9 August 1853 Pagination: 2 p. ; 31.5 x 20 cm. Order a Copy

Cosigned by A.W. Hope and John Foster as securities. Bean awaits judgment, held by the county of San Gabriel for the City of Los Angeles to answer a charge of assault with intent to kill. Bail set at five hundred dollars. Seals intact.

Bean was a frontier judge from Kentucky.

Bean, Roy, 1825-1903
Hope, A.W., fl. 1853
Foster, John, fl. 1853

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