U.S. Marshal Arrested for Alleged Abduction
A Deputy U.S. Marshal is taken into custody in Seattle on charges involving the forced removal of a woman.
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Deputy United States Marshal D. W. West was arrested yesterday morning by a Portland officer who had come on with extradition papers, prepared to bring him back on a charge of abduction. The trouble all grew out of the Tue Gam case, that was tried before Judge Springs last week, and in which she was sentenced to be deported to British Columbia, but appealed the case.
“Deputy United States Marshal D. W. West was arrested yesterday morning by a Portland officer who had come on with extradition papers.”
This reflects the fraught nature of immigration enforcement and deportation in the late 19th-century Pacific Northwest, where the law was often used as a weapon against vulnerable populations, leading to legal fights over jurisdiction and human rights.
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