Green’s Dictionary of Slang

a warrant (of arrest).

c.1698		B.E. Dict. Canting Crew n.p.: Fastner c. a Warrant.
1719		A. Smith Lives of Most Notorious Highway-men, etc. (1926) 205: Fastner, a warrant.
1725		New Canting Dict. [as cit. c.1698].
1737, 1759, 1760, 1776		Bailey Universal Etym. Eng. Dict. [as cit. c.1698].
c.1780–1882		B.M. Carew Life and Adventures n.p.: fastener a warrant.
1785, 1788, 1796		Grose Classical Dict. of the Vulgar Tongue.
1809		G. Andrewes Dict. Sl. and Cant.
1811		Lex. Balatronicum.
1821		Flash Dict.
1823		‘Jon Bee’ Dict. of the Turf, the Ring, the Chase, etc.
1835		G. Kent Modern Flash Dict.
1848		‘Ned Buntline’ Mysteries and Miseries of N.Y. I 114: ‘Fastner.’ A warrant.
1848		Flash Dict. in Sinks of London Laid Open.
c.1850		Duncombe New and Improved Flash Dict.
1859		Matsell Vocabulum.
1895		Crowe Aus. Sl. Dict. 27: Fastener, a warrant.
1935		A.J. Pollock Und. Speaks.