Dallas County AlArchives News.....Reward Offered for the Arrest of Joseph Noals March 2, 1853
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Advertiser And State Gazatte March 2, 1853

Advertiser and State Gazette-March 2, 1853, Montgomery-[see notes below]

PROCLAMATION 
Executive Department
Montgomery, Alabama

Whereas it has been made known to this Department that heretofore, to-wit: on 
the 14th day of February, inst. JOSEPH NOALS did murder George T. Sharp in the 
county of Dallas, and that the said Joseph Noals has escaped from justice: Now, 
therefore, I Henry W. Collier, Governor of the State of Alabama, by virtue of 
the power and authority in me vested by the Constitution and laws of the State, 
do hereby offer a reward of FOUR HUNDRED DOLLARS to any person or persons who 
will arrest the said Joseph Noals and deliver him to the Sheriff of Dallas 
county, to be tried for the offence with which he stands charged.

Given under my hand and the great seal of the State affixed, at Montgomery, 
this 18th day of February A.D. 1853, and of American Independence the 77th year.

By the Governor: H. W. COLLIER [L. S.]

V. M. BENHAM, Secretary of State

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DESCRIPTION

The said Noals is about 45 years old, 6 feet high, black hair, dark skin, lean 
visage, swarthy appearance with a very bad countenance. When talking, his under 
lip inclines to draw, and his teeth shows
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This article was no doubt published in numerous Alabama newspapers regarding 
the search for Joseph Noles(Knowles). Friends and family offered a $500.00 
reward as well. How many men pursued Joseph Noles(accompanied by son, Thomas)is 
unknown. But, the reward was evidently shared by two Dallas Co. citizens; B. J. 
McCaine and A. B. King-(see “arrested” article). Two others-Wm. B. Hall and M. 
Wheelin evidently never secured an extradition paper for their search(see item 
on this site). Hall was a witness to the crime. His fear, and reckless words, 
likely hastened the gunfire. See his testimony, and that of others, in the 
Alabama Supreme Court transcripts on this site. 





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