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STATE WARRANT. -- JAMES BARNET, Printer, 189 Lake Street, Chicago.
STATE OF ILLINOIS,
COOK COUNTY, } SS.
The People of the State of Illinois to all Sheriffs, Coroners and Constables within said State, GREETING:
Whereas complaint, under oath, has been this day entered before the undersigned, a Justice of the Peace, within and for said County, by Cyrus P Bradley that a forgery has been committed in ^the County of Henry in^ said State, and that said complainant has just and reasonable grounds to suspect that Edwin S. Piper alias E. B. Ballard is guilty of said forgery. You are therefore hereby commanded forthwith to arrest the said Edwin S. Piper alias, E. B. Ballard and bring him before me, (or, in my absence, before some other Justice of the Peace, in said County,) to answer to the people of the State of Illinois, on said charge, and abide such further order as may be concerning him upon said charge and hereof make due service and return as the law directs.
Given under my hand and seal at my office in S Chicago in said Cook ^County^ this th day of December A.D. 1862
T B Brown
Justice of the Peace.
The People
vs
Edwin S. Piper alias E B Ballard
Warrant
Cost $1.55