Steckbrief Grasl

Whosoever shall deliver the robber and murderer Johann Georg Grassl … alive to the Criminal Court of the municipal authorities of the capital and imperial residence of Vienna, or to any other criminal court in the land, shall receive, excepting that he is an accomplice of the said individual, a reward of four thousand gulden in Viennese currency.

According to the description provided by a number of his arrested accomplices, Johann Georg Grassl is twenty-two years old, of tall and slender stature, with a long face, more lean than fat, of a healthy complexion, with only a few pockmarks, and with freckles, grey eyes, a long pointed nose bent slightly to the left, the lower lip noticeably more prominent than the upper lip, small white teeth with gaps between, short, dark brown hair, thin eyebrows of the same [colour], and sparse side-whiskers under the chin, a scar below the right ear running straight across the cheek, and the little finger on his right hand crooked and bent inwards.

Notice issued by the Imperial-Royal District Authorities in Krems an der Donau on 7 November 1815