State of Missouri
County of St Louis } Ss "By the Habeas Corpus act"
The State of Missouri to the Jailor of the County of St Louis Greeting
You are hereby commanded that
the body of John Jones alias John
Cook in the Jail of said County
of St Louis under your custody detained
as it is said, under safe & secure
conduct, together with the day and
cause of his being imprisoned and
detained by whatsoever name the
said John Jones alias John
Cook may be known, you have
before me Henry Dusenbury The
Law Commissioner of St Louis county
at the my court room in the Court
House in the City of St Louis in the
said County on the 26" day of
Dec. 1857 at 9 Oc A.M. to do
and receive what shall then and there be considered concerning the said John Jones
alias John Cook so imprisoned and detained aforesaid; and hereof fail
not at your peril
Witness my signature this 24" day of Dec 1857
Henry Dusenbury
Law Com. St Louis County
