Oliver P. Morton, Requisition

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KYR-0001-022-0011

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Legal/Financial

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Kentucky Department for Libraries and Archives

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

Item Location

MG7-174 to MG7-176

Place of Creation

Indianapolis, Marion County, Indiana

Date of Creation

24 July 1861

Dates Mentioned

1861-07-24

1861-01-28

1861-04-01

1861-06-29

1861-02-07

1861-07-06

1861-08-03

Oliver P. Morton, Requisition, 24 July 1861, Office of the Governor, Beriah Magoffin: Governor's Official Correspondence File, Requisitions for the Return of Fugitives from Justice, 1859-1861, MG7-174 to MG7-176, Kentucky Department for Libraries and Archives, Frankfort, KY. Accessed via the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/KYR-0001-022-0011, (accessed December 22, 2024).

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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 States, that Frank Smith stands charged by the affidavidt of John W. Barker 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 Oliver P. Morton Governor of the State of Indiana, by virtue of the authority vested in me by the Constitution and Laws of the United States, do, by these presents, demand that the said Frank Smith be apprehended and delivered to John W. Barker 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 State 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 Twenty fourth day of July in the year of the Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty-one, the forty Sixth year of the State, and of the Independence of the United States the Eighty Sixth

BY THE GOVERNOR,
Oliver P. Morton

W. A. Peelle Secretary of State.

State of Indiana
Clark County SS

John W. Barker swears that on or about the 28^th day of Jany. 1861 at the County & State aforesaid Frank Smith & William Wyatt, did feloniously Steal take & carry away one copper Kettle, the personal property of Samuel H. Patterson of the value of Thirty dollars.

John W. Barker

Sworn & subscribed to before me a Justice of the Peace in & for said County the 1^st day of April 1861.
Charles D. Schell J. P. {Seal}

State of Indiana
Clark County SS

I Andrew J. Hay clerk of the Clark Circuit Court certify the foregoing to be a true copy of the affidavit of Jno. W. Barker in the case of the State of Indiana vs Frank Smith & W^m Wyatt as the same appears on file in my office.

Witness my hand & the seal of said Court this 29^th day of June 1861
Andrew J. Hay Clerk

State of Indiana Clark County SS

John W. Barker on oath states that on on or about the 7^th of February 1861 Frank Smith the within named defender A. Escaped from the Custody of the Sheriff of Clark Clark County, Indiana, where in Confinement on a charge of Grand Larceny and that said Smith is now in the Jail of Jefferson County Kentucky awaiting a requisition of the Governor of Indiana upon the Governor of Kentucky

John. W. Barker

Subscribed and sworn to before me this 6^th day July 1861.
Oswill C. Woolley
Mayor of the City of Jeffersonville

~~IssueWarrant~~
O. P. ~~Morton~~

Indiana

Warrant
Iss^d~~July~~Aug. 3^d 1861

Frank Smith
Grand Larceny

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