Wiliam H. Turner to James F. Robinson

Accession Number

KYR-0001-029-0124

Document Genre

Petition

Repository

Kentucky Department for Libraries and Archives

Collection

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

Item Location

R3-192 to R3-193

Date of Creation

11 November 1862

Dates Mentioned

1862-08

1862-11-11

To His Excellency James F Robinson
Govenror of Kentucky

Your petitioner William Turner, a free Man of Color, would respectfully represent to your Excellency that on the [ ] day of August, 1862, he was tryed in the Police Court for the City of Frankfort on a charge of assault and battery on the person of one Henry Clark a free Man of collor. His Honor Judge Graham upon the hearing of the proof in the case assessed a fine of fifty dollars against your petitioner.

Your petitioner would further represent that previous to and since the commission of the said offense he has conducted himself in a peaceable & orderly manner, & now respectfully asks that your Excellency will Exercise Executive Clemency towards him, & remit So Much of said fine as is not due & coming to the officers, —

Your petitioner would further represent that said fine has been respited for twelve months by his Excellency
Governor Magoffin, late Governor of Ky with a promise that he would remit it entirely in due time, which "Respite" is hereby exhibited to your Excellency —

Your Petitioner would further represent that his character has been and now is that of an honest and law abiding ~~citizen~~ inhabitant of Frankfort — He asks a remittal of this fine ^at the time^ out of a sense of Gratitutde to the gentlemen who went on his hand —

~~W. H. Turner~~

Willaim Turner states that he beleives the statements contained in the foregoing petition are true

W^m, H, Turner

Sworn to before me November 11^th 1862

W Franklin Examiner
Franklin Co

We ^the^ undersigned beleive the facts stated in the foregoing petition are true and that William Turner's ~~is an object~~ ^case is one^ for the exercise of your Excellency's clemency.

A. C. Keenon
W A. Gaines
J A Richardson
W H Sneed Co atto
~~J H~~J. Harlan
S. D. Morris
R U Blackburn
Tho S. Page
R A Athey
C. J. Clarke
F. A. Estep
E. S. Theobald
Em H Taylor
E P. Bowman
J. L. Phythian
C. E Phythian
Nat. S. Shaler
Alfred Hensley
Robert H. Taylor
H. R. Miller
Jno. W Royce
Geo W. Miller
Colby H Taylor
D Meriwether
Wm E. Cox
J. W. Russell
J. R Page
Clifford Page
G. W. Gwin
G W Owen
Jas W. Tate

Frankfort Po. Ct.

Pettn granted fine remitted
11 Nov. 62
J F Robinson

$50. } Assault
Iss^dNov 11. 1862

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