By the Governor of Virginia: a Proclamation.
--Information having been received by the
Executive that
Robert Goodson, who was confined in the jail of the county of
Franklin, under a charge of grand larceny, is now going at large: Therefore, I do hereby offer a reward of one hundred dollars to any person or persons who shall arrest the said
Robert Goodson and deliver him into the jail of said county; 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
Goodson, that he may be brought to justice.
Given under my hand as Governor, and under the
Less Seal of the
Commonwealth, at
Richmond, this 9th day of April, in the year 1862.
John Letcher.
By the
Governor:
George W. Munford.
Secretary of the
Commonwealth.
Robert Goodson is about 45 years old, about 6 feet 2 inches high, of rawboned, muscular frame, dark, swarthy complexion, black eyes, hair, and beard, and slight stoop in the shoulders.
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