State of Missouri
County of St Louis } SS
I Louis Du Breuil a Justice of the Peace
within and for the county aforesaid do hereby certify
that Gerard Doyle has this day brought before me Adam
Marshall a negro belonging as a runaway slave,
and that it appears to my satisfaction that the said
Adam Marshall is a runaway slave the property of Mary
L. Smith as he alleges of Shelbyville Shelby County
Kentucky. These are therefore to authorize and require
you the said Gerard Doyle to convey the said Adam
Marshall to the common gaol of said county & deliver
him together with this warrant to the keeper thereof
and you the keeper of the gaol are hereby commanded
to receive the body of the said Adam Marshal
a negro and him safely keep within your gaol
until he shall thence[?] be discharged by due course of
law
Given under my hand this 7th day of April 1855
Louis Du Breuil
Justice of the Peace
St Louis Co. Mso
