John A. Hornsby et al. to Thomas E. Bramlette

Accession Number

KYR-0001-004-0105

Document Genre

Petition

Repository

Kentucky Department for Libraries and Archives

Collection

Office of the Governor, Thomas E. Bramlette: Governor's official correspondence file, petitions for pardons, remissions, and respites 1863-1867

Item Location

BR8-156 to BR8-156A

Place of Creation

Eminence, Henry County, Kentucky

Date of Creation

1 January 1864

Dates Mentioned

1864-01-01

Eminence Henry County Ky. Jan 1st 1864
A Remonstrance
To His Excellency Thomas E Bramlette Gov of Ky.

The undersigned having heard that application had been made to your Excellency for a remission of the bond, in the Case of the Commonwealth agai^n^st George Myres~~tried~~ in the Henry Circuit Court charged with horse stealing. to which C M, Mathews is security, & hearing that you had stayed the execution of jugements in the case, and believeing that the bond should be paid, and that you would not remit the bond upon a knowledge of the following facts would respectfully Submit, the following; That Mathews was council for Myres and was fully acquianted with all the facts in the case, & that had he made his appearance for trial he would undoubtedly have been sent to the penitentiary ^for^ of a term of years. That Mathews was fully secured against loss in signing the bond, by Myres giving him a title to his farm in Indiana worth a great deal more than the amount of the bond, also received from him two horses and it is believed an amount of Money besides, in short ~~your~~ we believe Mathews was made safe in signing the bond of Myres, Also that the Legislature of Ky at its last session, upon a full & fair presentation of all the facts in the case appropriated five hundred dollars of the bond money to the loosers of the property. When collected and paid into the state Treasury, And thou in Consideration of the above representation, & in as much as the loosers of the property spent over two hundred dollars ($200) in search of the stolen property, we respectfully ask that you do no remit the bond, and that you remove the hindrance to the execution of the judgement of the Court,

John A Hornsby
J. W. Moody
N W Gould
S. T. Drane
J Thom Callaway
Thomas Todd
J M Callaway
Jas. H. Drane
Leonard Drane
Luke Hopkins

J. P. Sparks

Papers in relation to the Mathews case
Remonstrance

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