Edwards

The indictment in this case, containing two counts, was returned under section 19 of the federal Penal Code of 1910 (Act March 4, 1909, c. 321, 35 Stat. 1092 [Comp. St. 1913, § 10183), which provides as follows :

The second count of the indictment charges that' 'on the 1st day of June, 1912, one Patrick H. Bodkin, a citizen of the United States, made entry of the northeast quarter of section 11, township 7 south, range 22 east, San Bernardino base and meridian, at the United States land office at Eos Angeles under the homestead law of the United States, the same being public lands of the United States subject to homestead entry, and that the plaintiffs in error and others conspired to injure, oppress, threaten, and intimidate him in the free exercise and enjoyment of a right and privilege secured to him by the Constitution and laws of the United States, namely, the right and privilege to make, effectual his homestead entry by entering into possession of the lands embraced therein, making settlement thereon, and. improving and cultivating the same, and in other respects complying with the public land laws of the United States so as to earn and procure a patent.

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