Hmmm, I wonder if the wanted poster works like the one in the newbie zone, ie, you don't actually ask the sheriff about it, you read the poster and then have to go and find the bandit in question, and the sheriff won't respond to you until you literally bring him the bandit's head.
Perhaps also check the quest journal to see if there is anything there, or look at the quest cards?
There are some great systems in the mud and some interesting quests, its just a shame people aren't on more and that some of the information and zones are so obscure.
With our dreaming and singing, Ceaseless and sorrowless we! The glory about us clinging Of the glorious futures we see,
Our souls with high music ringing; O men! It must ever be
That we dwell in our dreaming and singing, A little apart from ye. (Arthur O'Shaughnessy 1873.)