Anson County NcArchives News.....John May - Inquest 1811
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The Star 1811
17 May 1811

Proclamation - By the Governour 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 lying 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 connexions and 
influence of the said Richard Fair Crawford, if he is apprehended he will not 
be brought to justice without difficulty: Now, therefore, I, Benjamin Smith, 
Governour of the State of North Carolina, pursuant to an act of the General 
Assembly passed at Raleigh on the 25th December 1800, 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 deliver him to the sheriff of Anson County 
at the Jail thereof.

The aforesaid Richard Fair Crawford is described to me as being a very tall, 
upwards of six feet high, slender, rawboned, remarkably strong and nervous, 
his face long and bony; cheek bones high; eyes large, prominent and grey; hair 
brown and worn short; shews his teeth when he laughs and chews tobacco.

Given under my hand at Raleigh this 13th day of May, 1811.

Benjamin Smith


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