STOP THE THIEF! 50 REWARD! I will pay the above reward for the arrest and safe confinement of BOB THOMPSON…

by John R. Cochran

$1,500 · Offered by James Arsenault & Company

“C. H., S. C.” i.e., Anderson Court House in Anderson, South Carolina, 1868 . Broadside, 9.125” x 12.125”. CONDITION: Very good, usual toning and foxing, .5” x 5.75” discoloration at top, later mounting cloth remnant at top of verso. A rare broadside offering a reward for a partially-blind, mixed-race horse thief who escaped his initial arrest in Anderson, South Carolina three years

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