Anson County NcArchives Court.....May - Deceased, John 1811
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Source: Raleigh Minerva
Written: 1811

Fri., May 17, 1811
GOVERNOR'S PROCLAMATION
   By the Governor of the State of North Carolina: Whereas, by an inquest 
taken at the house of JEREMIAH GADDY in Anson County on the fourth day of the 
present month, before ADAM LOCKART, Coroner, thereof upon the view of the body 
of JOHN MAY, then and there laying dead, it appears that a certain RICHARD 
FAIR CRAWFORD, late of the said county, feloniously, voluntarily, and of his 
malice aforethought, did discharge a gun, loaded with forty or fifty shot, 
which entered in and upon the left part of the belly of the said JOHN MAY, and 
made a mortal wound, whereby he instantly died - and that the said criminal 
has made his escape: And it being further represented that the murder was most 
cruel and unprovoked; that the criminal has fled beyond or out of the 
jurisdiction of this state; and that from the large connections and influence 
of the said RICHARD FAIR CRAWFORD, it is apprehended he will not be brought to 
justice without difficulty. - Now therefore, I, BENJAMIN SMITH, Governor of 
the State of North Carolina, pursuant to an Act of the General Assembly, 
passed at Raleigh, on the 26th December, 1810, do hereby offer a reward of Two 
Hundred Dollars, to be paid to such person or persons as shall apprehend the 
said RICHARD FAIR CRAWFORD and shall deliver him to the Sheriff of Anson 
County, at the jail thereof.
   The aforesaid RICHARD FAIR CRAWFORD is described to me as being "very tall, 
upwards of six feet high, slender, raw-boned, remarkably strong and nervous; 
his face long and bony; cheekbones high; eyes large, prominent and grey; hair 
brown and worn short; shows teeth when he laughs, chews tobacco."
    Given under my hand at Raleigh, this 15th day of May, 1811.
  15th May, 1811                            BENJAMIN SMITH


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