Territory of Washington}
County of Pierce} SS
To the Sheriff of Pierce County Greeting:
In the name of the United States of America you are hereby commanded "as you have heretofore been commanded" to take the bodies of James Riley and Thomas Horn, if to be found in your County, and there safely keep so that you have them before the District Court for Pierce County W.T. at a time thereof to be begun and holden at Steilacoom in said County on the 24th day of February 1864, "the same being the Fourth Monday in said month then and there to answer on an Indictment pending against them for assault with intent to kill.
Herein Fail not and have you then and there this writ, with your doings endorsed therein.
Witness the Hon C.C. Hewitt Chief Justice of Washington Territory and Judge of the District Court for Pierce County W.T. this 1st day of October A.D. 1863
John Latham Clerk
