STOP THE THIEF.
Gillen's Landing, Phillip county, Ark.
Runaway from the Plantation of E.N. Saunders & Brother, near the above place on the 3d instant, a negro boy, ALFRED, aged about 23 years, about 5 feet 7 or 8 inches high, light copper color, had light whiskers when he left, and very intelligent. Said boy was taken up, as pretended, on the 5th instant in this county, near head of Island No. 64, on the Mississippi River, and taken on board the steamboat Victoria by a man by the name of Louis B. Choate, who said he was going to take said negro to jail at Helena, and that is the last that has been heard of them. Said Choate is about 25 years old, about 6 feet high, spare built, rough boned, and what is called a muscular man, light hair and blue eyes, loves whisky, and when drinking is very quarrelsome. It is thought he will take railroad and go up into some part of the State of Tennessee, or go to the lower part of Missouri, as we learn he has lived in both places.
I am authorized to offer one hundred dollars reward for said Choate and the boy delivered to me at this place or lodged in jail so that the owner can get said boy, and the thief be dealt with according to law.
JOHN GILLEN
P.S. I understand the boy called his name JOHN when he left.