Napthaly

The defendant was accused by information of the crime of assisting a prisoner to escape.

It is averred in the information that on the twenty-third day of February, 1892, at the city and county of San Francisco, one Adam Stroh, alias Johnson, had been arrested for vagrancy, and was then and there confined in the city prison of the city and county of San Francisco, and was then and there in the legal and lawful custody of the chief of police of said city and county, pending an examination upon said charge.

That on said twenty-third day of February, 1892, in said city and county, defendant knowingly, willfully, and feloniously presented to one John Parrott, the acting keeper of said prison, an order of discharge, purporting to be a legal and lawful discharge from custody of said Adam Stroh, alias Johnson, on said charge of vagrancy. The order of discharge is set out in full, and *643 purports to show that said Stroh, alias Johnson, on charge of vagrancy, has deposited a bail bond with me (the clerk) in the sum of three hundred dollars for his appearance to answer said charge, and is dated February 23, 1892, and signed as follows, “A. A. Watson, clerk police court, per N.”

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