Arrest warrants by country

The warrant a magistrate signed to have a person brought before him. For the investigator the police finally catch up with.

Bearer prints it for 3 offices: Germany, State of New York, United Kingdom. Each is read off a document of the time or reconstructed on the country's law, and says which.

Bearer makes an investigator's papers for Call of Cthulhu and any 1920s or 1930s tabletop campaign: the passport a consul would have filled in, with the visas and frontier stamps a campaign leaves in it, and the permits, certificates and tickets of the period, to print or to share.

An example

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Every office Bearer prints it for

Each version in full

• The English warrant to apprehend

Sources

• Deutsches Reich; Wikisource transcription, Strafprozeßordnung, 1 February 1877 (RGBl. 1877 S. 253), §§ 102-107 and 112-115, § 112: remand in custody only on strong grounds of suspicion and either suspicion of flight or facts showing he would destroy traces or suborn witnesses (flight presumed for a crime, a vagrant, or an alien unlikely to appear); § 114: the arrest is made on a written warrant of the judge (schriftlicher Haftbefehl des Richters), naming the accused exactly and stating the punishable act laid to his charge and the ground of the arrest; it is made known to him at the arrest, or at the latest the day after he is brought into prison, with the notice that the appeal (Beschwerde) is open to him; § 115: he is heard by a judge at the latest the day after; § 105: searches ordered by the judge, in urgent cases by the prosecutor or the police (read directly)
• Matthew Bender & Co., Albany; Cornell University Library copy on the Internet Archive, New York Code of Criminal Procedure, as printed in Bender's Justices' Manual (1921): §§ 150-153 (the warrant of arrest) and §§ 791-811 (search warrants), § 151: a warrant of arrest is an order in writing in the name of the people, signed by a magistrate, commanding the arrest of the defendant, substantially in this form: County of …; In the name of the people of the State of New York, to any peace officer in the …: Information, upon oath, having been this day laid before me that the crime of … has been committed and accusing … thereof, You are therefore commanded forthwith to arrest the above-named … and bring him before … at …; Dated at … this … day of …, 19..; … Justice of the Peace; § 152: the name or description of the defendant, the offense, the time and the town, signed with the magistrate's name of office; § 791: a search warrant is an order in writing, in the name of the people, signed by a magistrate, directed to a peace officer, commanding him to search for personal property and bring it before the magistrate; § 792: stolen or embezzled property, property used to commit a felony, or held to commit a public offense; § 793: only upon probable cause supported by affidavit; § 797: the form (To any peace officer in the county of …, proof by affidavit having been this day made before me, by …, that …; You are therefore commanded in the day time [or at any time of the day or night] to make immediate search … for the following property: …, and if you find the same, or any part thereof, to bring it forthwith before me at …; Dated at …, the … day of …; …, Justice of the peace) (read directly)
• Parliament of the United Kingdom; text at legislation.gov.uk, Indictable Offences Act, 1848 (11 & 12 Vict. c. 42), Schedule, Form (B.): Warrant to apprehend a Person charged with an indictable Offence, To the Constable of … and to all other Peace Officers in the said [County] of …; Whereas A.B. of … [Labourer] hath this Day been charged upon Oath before the undersigned, [One] of Her Majesty's Justices of the Peace in and for the said County of …, for that he on … at … did [stating shortly the Offence]: These are therefore to command you, in Her Majesty's Name, forthwith to apprehend the said A.B., and to bring him before [me], or some other of Her Majesty's Justices of the Peace in and for the said [County], to answer unto the said Charge, and to be further dealt with according to Law. Given under my Hand and Seal, this … Day of … in the Year of our Lord … at … in the [County] aforesaid. J.S. (L.S.) (read directly)

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