Extradition Request from Louisiana Governor Henry C. Warmoth to Mississippi Governor Adelbert Ames; January 1, 1869

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Extradition Request from Louisiana Governor Henry C. Warmoth to Mississippi Governor Adelbert Ames; January 1, 1869

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Ames, Adelbert, 1835-1933 Cravath, Pete Haddox, Robert Haddox, Willis Kelly, Henry Kelly, James A.Lowenberg, S. M.Raymond, John B.Warmoth, Henry Clay, 1842-1931

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Crime Crime--Murder Criminal Procedure Criminal Procedure--Arrest Criminal Procedure--Charges and specifications (Civil and Criminal)Criminal Procedure--Extradition Criminal Procedure--Imprisonment Criminal Procedure--Trial Legislation. United States. Congress Political Office--Appointment to office

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Judges Judges. Justices of the Peace

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Louisiana Louisiana--Morehouse Parish Louisiana--Orleans Parish. New Orleans Mississippi--Warren County. Vicksburg

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State of Mississippi
Warren County

SS.

Personally appeared before me, the undersigned a duly appointed and Authorized commissioner of the State of Louisiana, James A. Kelly, who having been by me first duly sworn, deposeth and says that on or about 15^th, day of August AD 1868 Willis Haddox, Robert Haddox, and others did in the Parish of Morehouse in the State of Louisiana, feloniously and with malice aforethought, kill and murder Henry Kelly, Brother of the affiant, and futher deponent says that afterwards to wit on the 13^th,, day of January AD. 1869 in the City of Vicksburg County of Warren and State of Mississippi, Affiant caused the said Willis Haddox and Robert Haddox to be arrested by virtue and in pursuanace of a warrant issued from the office of Jno. B. Raymond a duly authorized and appointed Justice of the Peace in and for the County of Warren, and State of Mississippi, and that the said Willis and Robert Haddox are now in confinement in the jail of Warren County and that he voluntairly and as in his opinion and belief it is his duty so to do makes and subscribes this affidavit to be certi-fied to His Excellency Governor Warmoth Governor of the State of Louisiana that he may thereon cause, under his great

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seal of said State of Louisiana his requisition to be issued, directed to His Excellency Gov. Ames, Governor of the State of Mississippi demanding for trial the said Willis ^an_d Robert Haddox to be had in the State where said murder was committed and further deponent saith not.

^(Signed)^ James A Kelly

Subscribed and sworn to before me this 15^th day of January A.D. 1869

(Signed) S M Lowenberg Commissioner for Louisiana at Vicksburg Miss

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UNITED STATES OF AMERICA.

[image: pelican with scales of justice, between scenes of the Gulf and a plowed farm]

STATE OF LOUISIANA

To His Excellency the Governor of Mississippi

The undersigned Governor of the the State of Louisiana, would inform your Excellency that Willis ^an_d Robert Haddox in this State, charged with the crime of Murder, having Killed Henry Kelly in the Parish of Morehouse La. as will fully appear by a copy of an affidavit hereunto annexed, which I certify to be authentic, is a fugitive from the justice of this State, and now supposed to be within the limits of the State of Mississippi ^an_d in confinement in the jail of Warren County.

Your Excellency is therefore requested, in conformity to the Constitution and a law of the United States, to cause the said Willis ^an_d Robert Haddox to be delivered to James A. Kelley who is appointed Agent to receive him, that he may be brought into this State and dealt with as so law and justice may assssertain.

(This State will not hold itself responsible for the expenses attending the execution of this requisition.)

In Testimony Whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and caused to be affixed the Seal of the State of Louisiana: Done at the City of New Orleans, this sixteenth day of January in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty= nine and of the independence of the United States, the Ninety Third.

[seal] UNION JUSTICE & CONFIDENCE STATE OF LOUISIANA [/seal]

H, C, Warmoth

By the Governor:

Pete Cravath
Asst Secretary of State.