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Greeneville Greene County
East Tennessee 19th April 1828.

His Excellency.
Samuel Houston esquire

On the night of the 15th
of this Instt. a fellow by the name of Daniel Dyche
with another in Company broke the Jail of this County
and made his escape- He was tried and convicted at the
lst September Term of the Circuit Court here for
the wanton and unprovoked Murder of his Neighbor
and friend- Daniel Adams, as appeared from the
Evidence on the Trial- and no extenuating Circumstance
but the too free Use of Whiskey-

The object of this is to ask your
Excellency to offer a Reward for the Villain proportional
to the magnitude of his Crime, that he may suffer that
punishment which the Law has directed to be inflicted-
but from which with the Assistance of one or more villains
from the Out-side of the Jail he has at present esc-
aped- Daniel Adams's connexions are poor, respectable, but
unable to offer any Reward for his Apprehension-

Be pleased to direct as General a
Publication as the Case will admit of particularly
in the Papers of East Tennessee

Respectfully yr. Obet.

Richard M. Woods
Sheriff of Greene County

Daniel Dyche is about 22 or 23 years of Age
but appears much younger than he really is- smooth face-
not much Beard- dark Skin- bleached by a length of con-
finement in prison- dark, thick, straight hair trimed in