By the Governor of the Commonwealth of Virgtuis,  
                  A PROCLAMATION. 

WHEREAS it has been represented to the Executive by  
the sheriff of Southampion county, that on the night  
of the 3d of August the jail of said county was broke open,  
and three persons before confined therein made their escape  
therefrom, to wit: Matthew Gardner, Solomon Daughtry and  
Leonurd Alkinson. Gardner and Daughtry are under charge  
of murder; they had been tried by an examining court, and  
remanded to jail for further trial, as Atkinson had been for  
larceny. The aforesaid persons are now going at large: I  
do therefore, with the advice of the council of state, bereby  
offer a reward of two hundred dollars each for Gardner and  
Daughtry, and one hundred dollars for Atkinson, to any per-  
son or persons who shall apprehend and convey them, or ei-  
ther of them to the jail of Southampton county aforesaid.—  
And I do moreover require all officers civil and military, and  
exhoft the good people of the commonwealth to use their  
best endeavors to apprehend the aforesaid culprits, that they  
may be dealt with as the law directs.  
  
  Given under my hand as Governor, and under the seal of  
[Seal] the commonwealth, at Richmond, this 20th day of  
September, 1822.  
                             TH. M. RANDOLPH.  
  
  M. Gardner is about 50 years of age, 5 feet 6 or 7 inches  
high, dark skin, small blue eyes, speaks quick, stout and well  
made, round full face, Daughtry is about 5 feet 6 or 7 inches  
high, about 25 years old, fair skin, tolerably large blue  
eyes, light hair, bony face and rather prominent nose. At-  
kinson is about 30 or 35 years of age, upwards of 6 feet high,  
fair skin, hazle eyes, spare made, and thin face.  
  
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