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Sterling P. White v. John Cody. Warrant

 

United States of America
Territory of Washington }ss

To any sheriff or constable of the county

An inquisition having been this day found by the coroner's jury before[?] me, stating that A.L. Beardon came to his death by the act of S. White alias Bud White by criminal means you are therefore commanded in the name of the United States of America forthwith to arrest the above named S. White alias Bud White and take him before the nearest or most accessiable magistrate in this county

given under my hand this 25th day of December AD 1884

J.W. Carpenter
Justice of the Peace
Acting Coroner of
Lincoln County

Citation

Katrina Jagodinsky, Cory Young, Andrew Varsanyi, Laura Weakly, Karin Dalziel, William Dewey, Erin Chambers, Greg Tunink. “Sterling P. White v. John Cody. Warrant.” Petitioning for Freedom: Habeas Corpus in the American West, 1812-1924, University of Nebraska–Lincoln. Accessed November 22, 2024. https://petitioningforfreedom.unl.edu/documents/item/hc.case.wa.0126.067

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