$200 REWARD. NOTICE TO THE PUBLIC. MURDER! MURDER!! MURDER!!! ABOUT SUNSET ON THE 23D MAY, 1860, THE REV. [Reverend] JOHN E. CHAMBERS was most inhumanly murdered , while returning home from attending to his hands on his plantation in the vicinity of Pekin, N. C After a patient investigation of all the circumstances and testimony, the Coroner's Jury returned a runaway as principal; and three other negroes as accessories to the foul crime. The said runaway has escaped. The object of this notice is to elicit any information, that any one may be able to give in reference to the negro, as hereinafter described, and able to have him arrested. His bereaved family would feel under very great obligations to any one who would be so kind as to communicate any such information by letter or otherwise, to R. A. Chambers, Pekin, Montgomery county, N. C. They will also give the above reward of $200 for his arrest and commitment to jail at Troy, Montgomery Co., N. C. He is said to be about five feet 6 or 8 inches high, about thirty years of age, no whiskers, broad-shouldered, and well set ; he had very long, bushy hair, upper teeth protruding over the under, a scar or lump on his forehead, which he said was caused by a fall in leaping from the cars, when making his escape, and a very peculiar tone of voice. He claimed to be a great conjuror. He wore black pants and a black long-tailed coat. His hands were short, large and thick, and his feet large. The hat and shoes of the deceased were missing. He may possibly be wearing the hat, which may lead to his identification. The hat was broad-brimmed, and tolerably low-crowned, made of fur, but apparently of wool, of a brown, rusty appearance ; and had been torn on the top, but had been darned with black flax thread. He stated that he was originally from Virginia ; belonging to a widow and some children ; sold to a Mr. Thomas [illegible]r Thompson, a negro speculator ; escaped by being left [b]ehind in one train of cars, while his owner was hurrying [to] transfer to another ; lived with a man who owned other [n]egroes, in South-Carolina, in consequence of suspicion [l]eft and came into this neighborhood. Such is the account and description of the said runaway, [illegible] given by negroes. R. A. CHAMBERS. Pekin, N. C., June 26, 1860. 51--1t.
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