Hellen Goldsmith et al. to Thomas E. Bramlette

Accession Number

KYR-0001-004-0811

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

BR10-252 to BR10-253

Place of Creation

Louisville, Jefferson County, Kentucky

Date of Creation

12 May 1864

Dates Mentioned

1864-05-12

1864-05-11

1864-05-16

Louisville, Ky. May 12^th 1864
Gov. Bramlette

We, the undersigned, most respectfully ask your Excellency to pardon Joseph Brown, who was yesterday sentenced by the Circuit Court to two years confiement in the Penitentiary for the manslaughter of Albert Goldsmith.

Brown is very young, only 17 years of age, and we believe that without any malice or deliberate intention to do violence, was provoked into the difficulty by deceased who was very quarrelsome and the Widow adds ~~this~~ her signature to this appeal for your executive clemency.

Hellen Goldsmith Widow of the deseased
Wade F Lane
James W. Prather
N. V. Gerhart
C S Snead
Robt F Orr
Richard Isaacs —
J A Sproul
Thos J Hackney
Jno. N. Fletcher
W^m. E. Hughes
Peter Pfeiffer
Stephen Seversin
A L Hardan

I James P Chambers Clerk Jefferson Circuit Court certify that eleven of the names signed to this petition are the names of jurors in the case of Commonwealth against Joseph Brown convicted of felony in this Court on May 11 1864

Attest James P Chambers

I further certify that the name of A L Harding the twelfth juror has been subsequently added

att Jas P Chambers

C. B. Smith
Thead. Schwartz.
Henry Deppen

To Gov. Bramlette
Dear sir,

I ask your excellency's clemency to be extended to young Brown. Seeing the name of the widow of the decease, as well as eleven of the jury who tried him to the petition for the pardon, and being asked to intercede with you for the young man, I do it without hesitation, from the high characters of the parties who ask me. If consistent with your duty, it would gratify me much to have you pardon him. His youth should have much weight

very truly
Richard T Jacob

To Gov; Bramlette

I was of counsel for young Brown whose petition for a pardon is on a preceding page. On the trial of the case I offered as a witness in behalf of the accused, his younger brother by name Charles Brown, who testified in the Examining Court, and whose testimony explained the course of the shooting. It was that the deceased had kicked the accused several times on a portion of the the body and that great suffering was caused thereby and that during the difficulty Brown shot Goldsmith. The Circuit Judge excluded young Charles Brown as a witness on account of his youth and his ignorance of the nature of an oath; although he had testified as before stated in the Police Court. I unite in the petition for a pardon.

Respy
Nat. Wolfe

Jefferson Cir Ct
vs
Joseph Brown

Pardon granted
May 16" 1864
Tho E Bramlette

Civil War Governors of Kentucky is always evolving. Help us improve the edition by suggesting a correction or addition to this record.

Suggest a correction