County of St. Louis, SCT.
State of Missouri
To the Sheriff of S Louis County.... Greeting:
You are hereby commanded to summon Frederick Fuch[?] & Clement B Penrose
that setting aside all manner of excuse and delay, he be and appear in proper person before the Judge of our Circuit Court
on the forthwith day of at the City of St. Louis, then and there to testify and the truth to
say in a certain matter of controversy, now pending in our said court wherein upon Habeas Corpus
obtained by John Placket plaintiff and May his wife
defendant, on the part of the and have you then there this writ.
Witness, Archibald Gamble, Clerk of our said Circuit Court, at the City of St. Louis, this 21st day of Decr in the year of our Lord, one thousand eight hundred and twenty five
A Gamble Clerk, C.C.