Fred Rothenhofer to Thomas E. Bramlette

Accession Number

KYR-0001-004-1672

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

BR13-147 to BR13-148

Date of Creation

3 April 1865

Dates Mentioned

1864

1865-04-03

1865-05-03

To His Excellency Thos. E. Bramlette Governor of Kentucky.

Your Petitioner states that in the year 1864 he was a tavern keeper in Somerset, and in one of the rooms of his house erected a "Pigeon hole table" — on which the citizens of the town used to play — He states, that it was his express directions that gaming of all kinds was prohibited — He was indicted for keeping a gambling house, and at the present term of the Pulaski Circuit Court, fined $200= It was proven on the trial that men would play on his table, and the unsuccessful party would sometimes pay a treat — this if construed as betting was against his positive orders — He states, that no money ~~or anynor~~ ^nor^ any other thing was never bet at the game to his knowledge, and the proof failed to show any such betting — But it was proven that the young men would play on the table and that the termination of the game pay a treat at some of the groceries in the town —

Your petitioner states, he did not know that ~~thiswasprohibited~~, ~~if he had~~of any such bets as even for whiskey, cigars or treets were made, if he had, he would have stopped it —

He avers he is poor, and that the judgment is oppressive; and unless Your Excellency will remit the same, it will be a great hardship to have it to pay — That if the landws of the land were broken, it was not done by his knowledge or consent= He asks Your Excellency to remit the fine —

x F Rothenhofer

The foregoing petition was sworn to by Fred Rothenhofer before me, that the statements therein awere true, This 3 Ap^l 1865.
x

I Know pretty much of the facts and am of the opinion that the amt which he has to pay for costs & comth atty, is an ample punishment for the offense Committed, The "Pigeon Hole" was not intended or let up to cover gambling but for amusement & the boys about town preverted it into a place to pay treats

E L Van Winkle
C[...] Wirt
Hiram Dugan
Mit E Ingram
W, P, Ingram
W M^cKee Fox
W. B. Moore

Remitted
Richard T Jacob
Lt. & act. Gov.

Pulaski Co
vs
$200
F Rothenhofer
3^d May/65

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