Alexander S. Butler v. John Hempstead. Order
the State of Missouri
To the Keeper of the common Jail of St Louis County
Greeting
You are hereby commanded to receive the Body of Alex
S. Butler a runaway slave and him safely keep until
his owner take him hence and pays all reasonable
charges or until he shall be otherwise discharged
in due course of the Law
Given under my hand this
7h day of September 1854
Liberty Waite
Justice of the Peace
Citation
Katrina Jagodinsky, Cory Young, Andrew Varsanyi, Laura Weakly, Karin Dalziel, William Dewey, Erin Chambers, Greg Tunink. “Alexander S. Butler v. John Hempstead. Order.” Petitioning for Freedom: Habeas Corpus in the American West, 1812-1924, University of Nebraska–Lincoln. Accessed December 3, 2024.
https://petitioningforfreedom.unl.edu/documents/item/hc.case.mo.0036.008
