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Indicted for polygamy under the Edmunds Act...
Indicted for polygamy under the Edmunds Act...
Item # 693123
October 29, 1884
ST. LOUIS GLOBE-DEMOCRAT, Oct. 29, 1884 The bottom of page 3 has: "Indicted for Polygamy" which includes: "Henderson, three times tried at Malad, Idaho, for polygamy under the Edmunds law, has just been convicted of cohabiting with more than one woman in the marriage relation..." and a bit more.
The Edmunds Act is a federal statute, signed into law in 1882 declaring polygamy a felony in federal territories.
Twenty pages, very nice condition.
Category: Post-Civil War
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