District Court, S.D. New York January 15, 1879 (Leary's Case)

Choate, J.

[After stating the facts.]—The prisoner has shown that he has applied to the governor of New York for these papers or copies of them, and that the governor has declined to furnish them. He has also used due diligence to obtain copies of them from the governor of Massachusetts, but he has declined to furnish them.