Stolen! Stolen! (1872)
On the 25th night of March, 1872, was stolen from Hugh ROGERS, in Clay Co, NC, a small, flea-bitten gray Mare, with a white mane and tail, a white speck in one eye (which one not remembered), and a saddle knot on her back, and paces with a kind of straddling pace. The saddle was also taken. The lad who stole her is thought to have gone to Colorado, and perhaps left her in the neighborhood, or about Cleveland, Chattanooga, Athens, or somewhere along the Railroad in lower East Tennessee. Any person giving information of said mere will confer a favor and be liberally rewarded. Address, Dr. E.D. ROGERS, Morganton, Tenn. [originally appeared April 26, 1872] (page 3, col 4)
Source: Cleveland Banner (Cleveland, TN); 26 April 1872. Available online at Google News Archive.