Greensborough Patriot
Sep. 4, 1862
Page 1
Catch the Rogue
A young man
calling himself Turner, and professing to belong to the army, apparently about
twenty or twenty-one years of age, about five foot nine or ten inches in
height, with hair a little inclined to be light, with a scar on his face, (the
side not remembered) has been roaming through the country stealing horses, and
other things, under a pretense of impressing them for public uses. The said Turner, whose real name seems to be
Board, was arrested at Mt. Airy, Surry county, N. C., on a charge for forcibly
taking a horse belong[ing] to one Eli Jessup; and although the offence was
clearly proved upon him, he was on account of a technical legal exception, and
on account of his youth and positive and oft-repeated promises to rejoin his
company in service, permitted to go, on his own recognizance to appear at our
next Superior Court. This occurred in
May or June. Since that time, we have
been reliably informed that he has stolen another horse from Eli Jessup, and
other property from other persons. The
horse which he stole from Mr. Jessup was recovered by a party who pursued him,
but the “rogue” escaped. We are also
informed that the said Turner endeavors to excite sympathy by reporting himself
to be a refugee from North western Virginia, and circulating unfounded and
lying reports on various citizens of the county, pretending to implicate them
as untrue to our cause. The public are
cautioned against him as a most unmitigated scoundrel, and are warned not to
put any reliance in his statements; and good citizens are requested to arrest
and confine him, so that he may be punished as he deserves.
J.
F. GRAVES
W.
R. HOLLINSWORTH
H.
V. ALLRED
WILLIAM
RAWLEY
W.
A. MOORE
T.
F. PRATHER
ROBT.
S. GILMER
Mt.
Airy, N. C.., Aug. 12. 1862
[Transcribed by Sharon Strout]