NOTICE.--COMMITTED TO JAIL.
A NEGRO MAN, CALLING HIMSELF HENRY HAGEN, was taken up and committed to the Jail of Craven county, at Newbern, on the 21st January, 1859, as a runaway Said boy is well built, stout and likely, copper colored complexion, five feet eight inches high, and about thirty-five years of age. Has no mark or scar visible save one on his right hand. The negro says he was born and raised in Plymouth, that he has been living near Wilmington for 10 or 12 years past, and that he came from there to Newbern. The boy Hagen claims to be free, but on suspicion that he is a slave he has been taken up and committed to Jail as above mentioned ; and this notice is to call upon the owner to come forward, pay charges, and take him away ; or if he be free, let some one capable of establishing the fact come forward and do so, that he may be set at liberty.
A. C. LATHAM, Sh'ff. [Sheriff]
Newbern, Jan. 24, 1860. 8--tf.
