Philip D. Yeiser to Rufus K. Williams

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KYR-0001-029-0094

Document Genre

Correspondence

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Kentucky Department for Libraries and Archives

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Office of the Governor, James F. Robinson: Governor's Official Correspondence File, Petitions for Pardons, Remissions, and Respites, 1862-1863

Item Location

R3-146 to R3-147

Place of Creation

Paducah, McCracken County, Kentucky

Date of Creation

4 October 1862

Dates Mentioned

1862-10-04

1862-06

1862-10-09

Philip D. Yeiser to Rufus K. Williams, 4 October 1862, Office of the Governor, James F. Robinson: Governor's Official Correspondence File, Petitions for Pardons, Remissions, and Respites, 1862-1863, R3-146 to R3-147, Kentucky Department for Libraries and Archives, Frankfort, KY. Accessed via the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/KYR-0001-029-0094, (accessed December 21, 2024).

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Paducah KyOctr 4^th 1862
Judge R K Williams
D^r Sir

Will you so much oblige me as to go to Govr Robinson & present my Case as herein after stated for executive clemency, it is a really meretorious one as the facts will show and I pledge you my honor what I say is true

At the term of the Lyon Circuit Court before the last I was security on a recognizance bond for the appearance of Wm Reeder indicted for a misdemeanor, his trial came on he was present and fined 50$ -- (there was a protem Judge at that Court the regular Judge being absent) in the morning or about noon of the next day after trial the commonwealths atty caused Reeder to answer to the Judgment he answered and I delivered him up to the court and so announced, but some confusion in same way occuring about that time the clerk omitted to make an entry of my surrendering him up & it being about the close of court the entry was not made and Reeder went off and I have'nt seen or heard of him since -- ~~with it~~ however after it was ascertained that Reeder had gone home & the entry of his surrender was not made, Just before the Court was about to enter the adjoining order finally the Coml^th atty on Motion took the Recognizance bond for $200 for foreited -- at the last June term 1862 of the said Lyon circuit court all these facts were proven
but the court (Judge Dabney) not feeling authorized to correct the record & adjudging that no proof short of the record evidence of my having surrendered him up would do rendered Judgment against me but both he & the Commonwealth atty wrote out a Statement of the facts for the Governor with recommendations for pardon, which statement I sent to Frankfort to Jonas Martin a representative and he never presented it & besides lost it & now the Guerillas are so thick in Lyon, Caldwell and Trigg that I cannot see the Judge & atty to get another statement, nor go to Lyon to get a copy of the Judgment, but I herewith inclose a copy of the execution issued to the sheriff of McCracken County on the said Judgment & the sheriff is pressing payment and really I have'nt the money to pay -- besides you know I have spent several months hard labor without fee or reward for the State, however as a patriot I should have done that, but on the other hand she ought to kindly consider the meretorious appeals of her sons for clemency -- The costs of this execution which the Governor cant remit will pester me to pay, for I tell you those infernal villains in Lyon have nearly ruined me -- I lost at least 5000 or 6000$ in this rebellion to say nothing of the loss of time and business.

Yours &c
P. D. Yeiser

Lyon Cir Ct

The collection of the Judgt & Exetn in this Petttn hand respited for 4 months

J F Robinson
$200. } Recog.
P. D. Yeiser
Wm Boyd
Iss^dOct 9. 1862

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