County of St Louis - The State of Missouri
To the constable of St Louis Township and the keeper of the Jail of Said County Greeting-
These are to command you the said constable forthwith to convey
and deliver into the custody of the keeper of the Jail of the County of
St Louis aforesaid the body of John Plackett and that of [] Plackett
his wife of St Louis taken and brought before me, a Justice of the peace
within and for the county aforesaid and charged before me upon the
oaths of Jabez Warner E.H. Shepherd and John Finney with
barbarous and inhuman treatment to a certain Female child (called
(Lucy as has since been understood) maiming beating and ill using
said child to the danger of her life. And you the said keeper
of the said Jail are hereby required to receive the said John Plackett
and [] Plackett his wife into your custody in the said Jail
and them there safely keep until they shall thence be discharged
by due course of law— Given under my hand and seal
at the County aforesaid this nineteenth day of December in the
Year of our Lord One Thousand Eight hundred and Twenty Five
Peter Ferguson
Justice of the Peace
County of St. Louis
State of Missouri
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