Fairfield County ScArchives News.....James M. Simpson wanted for murder of Thomas Smiley .
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"The Banner" .
Abbeville Dist., South Carolina

NEWSPAPER Issue of AUGUST 19, 1846

PROCLAMATION OF THE GOVERNOR

Executive Office, Charleston, S.C.

Aug. 13, 1846

Information has been received at this Department of a deliberate and 
atrocious murder having been committed on the body of Thomas SMILEY of 
Fairfield district on the 7th of August, by one James M. SIMPSON of the same 
neighborhood, and that the same James M. SIMPSON has absconded. Now know ye 
that justice may be had, I do hereby offer a reward of One Hundred Dollars 
for the apprehension and safe delivery of the said James M. SIMPSON in any 
jail in this State.

He is about 6 feet one inch high, light hair, stoops in the shoulder, spare 
built and has a long beard under his chin and neck; rather inclined to be 
rude.

This 13th day of August 1846

William AIKEN, Governor

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