Richard Yates to Unknown

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Title

Richard Yates to Unknown

Publisher

Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum

Date

1863-02-25

Format

pdf

Language

eng

Identifier

514191

Transcription

State of Illinois Of the December Term

Bureau County of the Circuit Court

                  of said Bureau County in the year of our Lord Eighteen hundred and sixty three.
  The Grand Jurors chosen selected and sworn in and for the County of Bureau aforesaid, in the name and by the authority of the people of the State of Illinois upon their oaths present that Marshall Fisk late of said County, on the first day of October in the year of our Lord Eighteen hundred and sixty three, in said County, in and upon one David Hewitt, in the peace of God and the said People then and there being feloniously did make an assault, and him the said David Hewitt in bodily fear and danger of his life then and there feloniously did put, and one horse of the value of one hundred dollars of the personal property goods and chattels of said David Hewitt, one buggy of the value of twenty dollars of the personal property goods and chattels of one Benjamin F. Cox  then and there being found and one saddle of the value of ten dollars of the personal property goods and chattels

of one Franklin W Cass then and there being found, from the person and against the will of the said David Hewitt, then and there feloniously, violently and forcibly did steal take and carry away, contrary to the form of the Statute in such case made and provided and against the peace and dignity of the same people of the State of Illinois.

David P. Jones States Attorney for the ninth Judicial Circuit

State of Illinois

Bureau County of I. George M Radcliffe

Clerk of the Circuit Court in and for said County and State do hereby certify that the foregoing is a true copy of an Indictment filed of record in the said Court as shown on this copy December 25th A.D. 1863. Witness my hand and the Seal of said Court at Princeton in said County this 24th day of February A.D. 1864

George M. Radcliffe clk
By Casio D. Trimble
      (Deputy?)

                         The People
                               vs
                        Marshall Fisk   
                        Indictment for Robbery
                      
                        A true Bill
                        Thomas Tristan  Foreman
                        Witnesses
                        David Hewitt
                                 Witaker?
                        Lyman C. King
                         Filed December 25th 1863
                         G. M. Radcliffe Clk
                         Bail 800 $
                         Me. E. H.

State of Illinois

Sangamon County

City of Springfield

                        I David E. Norton upon oath declare that I am acquainted with Marshall Fisk charged by Indictment in Bureau County with Robbery and that he is a fugitive from Justice and now within the state of new York, as I am informed and believe. -
                                                                                    David E. Norton

Subscribed and sworn to before me this 25th day of February A D 1864

O.S H. Miner
Notary Public
City of Springfield Ills

     RICHARD YATES

STATE......SOVEREIGNTY......NATIONAL UNION

GOVERNOR OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS,

To His Excellency the Governor of New York

    It appears by the annexed papers, duly authenticated according to the Laws of this State, that Marshall Fisk stands charged in Bureau county in This state with the crime of Robbery ~ and it has been represented to me that he has fled from the justice of this State, and has taken refuge in the State of New York  Now, therefore, Pursuant to the provision of the Constitution and Laws of the United States -- such case made and provided, I do hereby require that the said Marshall Fisk ~~ be apprehended and delivered to_____ who is hereby duly authorized to receive and convey him to the State of Illinois, there to be dealt with according to law.
   In Testimony Whereof, I have hereunto set my hand, and caused the Great Seal of the State to be hereunto affixed.  Done at the City of Springfield, this 25th day of February in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty=four, and of the Independence of the United States the eighty=eighth
                                                                          Rich'd Yates

BY THE GOVERNOR:

O.U. Hatch

SECRETARY OF STATE


Presented to the Illinois State Historical Library

Permanent Loan by Mildred Norton Andrews

10 April 1967


                 RICHARD YATES
 GOVERNOR OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS,
    To all to whom These Presents shall shall come,....Greeting:
    Whereas, Marshall Fisk stand charged in the County of Bureau in this State, with the crime of Robbery ~~ and it has been represented to me that he ha(s) fled from the justice of this State and taken refuge in the State of New York; And whereas, agreeably to the Constitution of the United States, and an act of Congress, passed Feb. 12, 1793, I have made application to his Excellency the Governor of said State of New York for the surrender of the said Marshall Fisk ~ as fugitive from justice, and have also, in pursuance of the power vested in me by law, appointed, (and by these presents do appoint)________agent, an the part of the State of Illinois, for the purpose of receiving the said Marshall Fisk ~~ from the constituted authorities of the said State of New York whenever he shall be surrendered in accordance with such application, and bringing him into this State, to be dealt with as provided by the law in such case made and provided.
  These are, therefore, to request and require all persons to permit the said _________ agent as aforesaid, to receive and secure the said Marshall Fisk -- and bring him unmolested into this State, having jurisdiction of said crime, and to render all lawful and necessary assistance in the premises, he the said agent peaceably and lawfully behaving.  No expenses will be paid by this State.
                                 In Testimony Whereof, I have hereunto set my hand, and caused the Great Seal of the State to be hereunto affixed.  Done at the City of Springfield, this 25th day of February in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty=four, and of the Independence of the United States the eighty=eighth
                                                            Rich'd Yates

BY THE GOVERNOR:

O. U. Hatch

Secretary of State


From

Mildred Norton Andrews

(Mrs. Alexander M. Andrews)

R.F.D. 4

White Cloud, Michigan 49349

22 March 1967


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