NOTICE.
One Hundred Dollars Reward.
ARE hereby promised and will be immediately paid down by
the subscribers to any person arresting, delivering unto him,
or confining into any gaol in this territory, an English negro,
called THOMAS supposed to have murdered his master Mr.
Joseph Parran, Italien [sic] by birth, on board of the Pirogue
in which he usually traded along the coast and generally had
along with him the said negroe. This felony was committed
on the night between the 13 and 14 inst. opposite Mr. Tirtut’s
plantation, in this parish and on the left bank of the river. The
said negroe after the perpetration of the crime of which he is
supposed to be guiltes [sic], runaway. It seems that he carried
off a pirogue belonging to Mr. George Fossier to facilitate his escape.
This 15 of June 1812.
A. D. TUREAUD,
Judge of the Parish St. James.
June 26.