Leflore County, MS
Crime News
PROCLAMATION $50 REWARD
Penitentiary Convict has effected his escape and is still at large. No. 365 Steve
Jackson, age 19 yrs, height 5ft 41/2in.; Complexion: Brown, hair and eyes
Black 3 scars in head; scar on right cheek; 2 scars on right elbow; scar on back of right hand; scar on right ankle
Occupation: Laborer Crime: Burglary and Larceny Sentenced: Dec. 8, 1887, for 3years from Jackson County Escaped:
March 11, 1889 from N. N. Campbell, near Sharkey, Tallahatchie county Reward for the arrest and delivery of said
convict to the Board of Control of the Penitentiary. [The Clarion Ledger, May 16, 1889 - Submitted by Candi H.]
PROCLAMATION $100.00 REWARD
Charles Jeffries was murdered in Leflore
county on the 16th day of December, 1889, by some unknown person or persons and said person or persons are is still
at large.
I, J. M. Stone, Governor of Mississippi, do offer the above reward in addition to the statuary reward for the arrest
and delivery of the said murderer or murderers of the said Charlie Jefferies to the sheriff of Leflore county said
reward payable on conviction.
Given under my hand and the Great Seal of the State affixed, at Jackson, this 24th day of Jan. 1890
[The Clarion Ledger, Feb. 6, 1890 - Submitted by Candi H.]
Goes to Rankin Farm Jackson, Miss., Jan. 10 - Paul
DeMott is once on the Rankin convict farm and will be guarded more closely
than heretofore. in December 1914, Governor Brewer granted Paul a conditional pardon. He had been sent up from
his home county, Hinds, for forgery when less than 20 years of age - being scarcely 21 now. But Paul did not appreciate
the governor kindness it seems and in November, 1915, he was sent back to the penitentiary from Leflore county
for the same offense of forgery and under a three -year sentence. [Daily
Herald, Jan. 10, 1917 - Submitted by Candi H.]
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