Arrest Warrant County Of Essex 1863
Arrest Warrant County Of Essex 1863 |
Year: 1863 |
Type(s): Ephemera |
Physical Description: 33x21 cm; 1 sheet, front and back |
Language: English |
Source: Mike Skreptak Collection; Ephemera Box |
Notes: Inside:
Canada to wit: Victoria by the Grace of God of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, Queen, Defender of the Faith.
To the Sheriff of the County of Essex. Greeting.
We command you, that you take Isaac Leek if he shall be found in your County, so that you may have his body before our Justices assigned to keep the Peace in and for the County of Essex, to answer us concerning a Bill of Indictment whereof he stands charged, if the Court of General Quarter Sessions of the Peace be there sitting: but if the said Isaac Leek cannot be taken during the sitting of the said court, then we command you that so soon after as he shall be taken, you do bring him or cause him to be brought before some Justice of the Peace of the said County of Essex, to be dealt with according to law; and in what manner you shall have executed this our Writ, we command you that you make appear to us upon the execution hereof. And herein fail not at your peril.
Witness Gordon Watts Leggatt Esquire, Chairman at Sandwich, this eleventh day of September in the twenty sixth year of our Reign. Chas Baby [Charles Baby]. Clk Pe Essex [Clerk of the Peace for Essex]
Outside:
Warrant
Queen vs Lea[e]k
Filed 11 Sept. 1863
John McEwan
Sheriff
Filed 17th Sept. 1864
Execute the within? warrant as I am herein? commanded. Given? under my hand this 11th day of September 1863. John McEwan, Sheriff |
Subject(s): Leek, Isaac Baby, Charles McEwan, John Leggatt, Gordon Watts Arrest Warrants Crimes |
Place(s): Sandwich (Ontario) Windsor (Ontario) Essex County (Ontario) |
Rights: Public Domain |
Repository: University of Windsor. Leddy Library |
Tiff Image(s): Click links to download Tiff images: Tiff Image 1 , Tiff Image 2 |