Abram A. Hammond, Requisition

Accession Number

KYR-0001-022-0001

Document Genre

Legal/Financial

Repository

Kentucky Department for Libraries and Archives

Collection

Office of the Governor, Beriah Magoffin: Governor's Official Correspondence File, Requisitions for the Return of Fugitives from Justice, 1859-1861

Item Location

MG7-147 to MG7-148

Place of Creation

Indianapolis, Marion County, Indiana

Date of Creation

1 November 1860

Dates Mentioned

1860-11-01

1860-09-28

REQUISITION FOR FUGITIVE FROM JUSTICE

TO HIS EXCELLENCY,
The Governor of the State of Kentucky

It appears by the annexed papers, duly authenticated according to the laws of our State, that William Ward stands charged by affidavit of F P Smith with the crime of Grand Larceny and it has been represented to me that he has fled from the justice of this State and has taken refuge in the State of Kentucky

Now Therefore, I, ABRAM A. HAMMOND, Governor of the State of Indiana, by virtue of the authority vested in my by the Constitution and Laws of the United States, do, by these presents, demand that the said William Ward be apprehended and delivered to Hiram S. Hall who is hereby authorized to receive and convey him to the State of Indiana, that he may abide his trial for the crime with which he stands charged.. "The Ttate will pay no part of the expenses of the execution of this Writ."

{INDIANA STATE SEAL}

In Testimony Whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and caused to be affixed the Seal of the State, at the City of Indianapolis this 1^st day of November in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty=[ ], the Forty fifth year of the State, and of the Independence of the United States the Eighty fourth

BY THE GOVERNOR
A. A. Hammond
[...]Dunham Secretary of State.

State of Indiana
Marion County } SS

Francis P. Smith being duly sworn upon his oath says that one William Ward on the 28^th day of September in the year of 1860 at Marion County and in the State of Indiana did unlawfully and feloniously steal take and carry away one bank note of the denomination and value of Five Dollars in the Exchange Bank of Attica in the State of Indiana, and four bank notes each of the denomination and value of Five Dollars on the Bank of the State of Indiana. and a large amount of other bank notes of varioius denominations and of the value of three hundred dollars, which cannot be more particularly described because the same are now in the possession of some person to this affiant unknown; all of said above mentioned bank notes being then and there the personal goods chattles and property of this affiant, Francis P. Smith, and affiant says that said William Ward, immediatley upon the commission of the felony and larceny aforesaid fled from the jurisdiction of the State of Indiana and ever since has been and now is within the state of Kentucky: Wherefore said affiant asks his Excellency A. A. Hammond, Governor of the
State of Indiana for a writ of requisition directing the Governor of the State of Kentucky to order the removal of said William Ward from said State of Kentucky to the State of Indiana to answer the charge in the affidavit & petition set forth.

F. P. Smith

State of Indiana
Marion County SS }

Personally appeared before me Alexander H. Conner a Notary Public Frances B. Smith who upon his oath says that the above affidavit is true as he believes.

Witness My hand & Notarial seal this 1st day of November A. D. 1860.

Alexander H. Connor

{A. H. CONNER.
NOTARY
PUBLIC
MARION CO. IND.}

IndianapolisNov 1 1860

Upon a Writ in the within

A. A. Hammond

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