Indictment, United States v. Salvatore Lima et al., first page of text (Northern District of Ohio, December Term 1909)
Typed first page of the federal grand-jury indictment naming sixteen defendants and charging that on 3 November 1908, at Marion, Ohio, they conspired to violate section 5480 of the Revised Statutes, the mail-fraud statute.
- Date
- 1909-12-11
- Kind
- case-file
- Retrieved
- 2026-10-12
- NAID
- 219793790
- Rights
- A record of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Ohio, Western Division, held by the National Archives at Chicago in Record Group 21. A United States government work, public domain in the United States under 17 U.S.C. § 105. The National Archives catalog lists access and use as unrestricted.
This is file page 2 of the case file NAID 219793790, the first page of the indictment’s text. It is headed “The United States of America. Northern District of Ohio, Western Division,” and reads that “At the December Term of said Court, in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and nine,” the grand jurors “upon their oath present and find that” the sixteen men named, “heretofore, to-wit: on November 3rd, 1908, at the City of Marion, Marion County, Ohio … unlawfully, knowingly and feloniously did conspire, combine, confederate and agree together … to violate Section 5480 of the Revised Statutes of the United States.”
The page is the government’s charge. The verdict of 29 January 1910 is recorded in the companion file (NAID 219793791). The image is the National Archives’ scan, stored here as a reduced copy.
