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Convict captured.
--John P. Gunnels, the convict who succeeded in making his escape from the penitentiary on Wednesday morning, at the time an assault was made upon the guard by James Conway, a fellow convict, who was then shot and mortally wounded, was captured by Capt. J. B. Pleasants and watchman Drake, on Wednesday evening and returned to the custody of the Superintendent of the penitentiary.
Gunnels had secreted himself in an old stable on the line of the canal about two miles from eturned to the custody of the Superintendent of the penitentiary.
Gunnels had secreted himself in an old stable on the line of the canal about two miles from this city, where he was found by the vigilance of the officers who were in search of him. These officers, we presume, will receive the reward of one hundred and fifty dollars offered by the Governor, though the capture was made before the appearance of the notice from the Secretary of the Commonwealth in the papers offering such reward.
By the Governor of Virginia — a Proclamation.
--Information having been received by the Executive that John P Gunnels, a convict in the Penitentiary, sentenced thereto by the Hustings Court of the city of Richmond, for the crime of grand larceny, has escaped therefrom, and is now going at large: Therefore, I do hereby offer a reward of one hundred and fifty dollars to any person or persons who shall arrest the said convict and deliver him into the Penitentiary; and I do moreover require all officers of this Commonwealth civil and military, and request the people generally, to use their best exertions to procure the arrest of the said convict, that he may be brought to justice.
Given under my hand as Governor, and under the Lesser Seal of the Commonwealth, at Richmond, this day of March, in the year, 1864. Wm. Smith. By the Governor: George W. Munford, Secretary of the Commonwealth.