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[1] The indictment herein charges that:

It proceeds then to aver that the intention of defendants, and the end, the aim, and the purpose of the said military enterprise was further to destroy various tunnels belonging to the Canadian Pacific Railway Company, which company was transporting in domestic and foreign commerce munitions of war destined for and in course of transportation to England, France, Russia, and Japan; to destroy by force of arms all railroads in Canada so engaged in transporting such munitions of war so destined; to destroy by force of arms all railroad trains carrying such munitions of war so destined; to destroy all railroad bridges and tunnels upon or through which such trains were being operated; and to destroy and sink by force of arms all ships, with their cargoes and crews, engaged in transporting from any Canadian port such munitions of war so in course of transportation, or consigned to or intended for Great Britain, France, Russia, Belgium, or Japan.

The indictment further avers that such military enterprise was also to be carried on against the British steamship Talthybius, the said ship being the territory and dominion of the king of Great Britain…