In the District Court of the First Judicial District
County of Pima
Territory of Arizona
September Term, A.D. 1887 sitting for the trial of all cases arising under the Constitution and Laws of the United States, and having exercising the same jurisdiction in all cases arising under the Constitution and Laws of the United States, as is vested in Cirtcuit and District Courts of the United States, at a term thereof began and held at the city of Tucson in the County of Pima in said District and Territory, on the 15th day of October A.D. One Thousand Eight Hundred and Eighty Seven.
The United States}
vs.} Indictment
Geronimo, an Apache Indian}
First Judicial District
Territory of Arizona
The Grand Jurors of the United States of America, within and for the First Judicial District, Territory of Arizona, being duly impaneled, sworn, and charged to inquire within and for the body of said District, of all offenses committeed therein against the United States of America, upon their oath present:
That the said Geronimo, an Apache Indian, late of the First Judicial District, Territory of Arizona, with force and arms, in said District and Territory, on or about the 15th day of April A.D. One Thousand Eight Hundred and Seventy Seven and before the finding of this indictment:
then and there did commit the crime of murder. That is to say the said defendant Geronimo, an Apache Indian, and then and there belonging to the tribe of Apache Indians, which tribe belonged on the White Mountain Indian Reservation, in the Territory of Arizona, and which said defendant than and there belonged in said Reservation, on the said 15th day of April 1877, with force and arms, at the first judicial district of the Territory of Arizona, in and upon the body of one Jesus Robles, in the peace of the United States then and there being feloniously, willfully, and of his malice aforethought, did make an assault and that the said Geronimo, a certain Gun of the value of ten Dollars, then and there charged with gunpowder and divers leaden bullets which said gun the said Geronimo in his hands then and there had and held, and then and there feloniously, willfully, and of his malice aforethought did discharge and shoot off to, against and upon the said Jesus Robles; and that the said Geronimo, with the leaden bullet aforesaid, out of the gun aforesaid, then and theere by force of the gunpowder aforesaid, by the said Geronimo, discharged and shot off as aforesaid, then and there feloniously, willfully, and of his malice aforethought, did strike, penetrate and wound him the said Jesus Robles in and upon the body of him said Jesus Robles giving to him said Jesus Robles, then and there with leaden bullet aforesaid, is as aforesaid discharged and shot out of the gun aforesaid by the said Geronimo, in and upon the body of him the said Jesus Robles, one mortal wound of the depth of six inches and of the breadth of half an inch of which said mortal wound, he the said Jesus Robles then and there instantly died.
And so the Grand Jurors aforesaid, upon their oath aforesaid, do say that the said Geronimo, an Apache Indian, in the manner and form aforesaid and at the time and place aforesaid did feloniously, willfully, and of his malice aforethought kill and murder against the peace of the United States and their dignity, and contrary to the form of the Statute in such case made and provided.
