State of Missouri County of St Louis } ss. Before me the undersigned a Justice of the Peace within and for the County -- aforesaid personally comes George Henley -- who being duly sworn on his oath deposeth & saith as follows to wit: I know the man (colored) John Black alias Crawley the last time I saw him absent from the State of Missouri was at Mobile State of Alabama; I knew him then as the slave property of one Stephen Gardier-- of the twelve mile point or Ashwood Landing State of Illinois, and is at present at large in said County without knowledge or consent of owner. I know that he is a runaway slave, and believe him still to be the property of said Stephen Gardier. Said slave is the man now produced before said Justice.
George Henley
Sworn to & subscribed before me in the 1st day of May 1856
John Black JP
