Coweta County GaArchives News.....(OFFICIAL) A Proclamation October 1, 1869
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The Georgia Enterprise October 1, 1869
$1,000 REWARD
GEORGIA
By Rufus B. Bullock, Gov. of Said State.
     WHEREAS, Official information has been received at this Department, that  
a murder was committed in the county of  Coweta, on the 27th of July, 1869, 
upon the body of E. RAINEY, by J. A. CORLEY, and that said Corley has fled from 
justice:
     I have thought proper, therefore, to issue this, my proclamation, hereby 
offering a reward of One Thousand Dollars for the apprehension and delivery of 
the said Corley, with proof sufficient to convict, to the Sheriff of said 
county and State.
     And I do moreover charge and require all officers in this State, both 
civil and military, to be vigilant in endeavoring to apprehend the said Corley, 
in order that he may be brought to trial for the offense with which he stands 
charged.
Given under my hand and the great seal of the State, at the Capitol in Atlanta, 
this 6th day of Sept., in the year of our Lord One Thousand Eight Hundred and 
Sixty-Nine, and of the Independence of the United States of America the Ninety-
Fourth.
RUFUS B. BULLOCK, Governor
By the Governor:
DAVID G. COTTING, Secretary of State.

DESCRIPTION
     The said Corley is about 45 years of age, 5 feet 11 inches or six feet 
high, dark hair, blue eyes, dark skin, and weighs about 145 or 150 pounds.


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