Dan McGrath to James F. Robinson

Accession Number

KYR-0001-029-0126

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

R3-195

Date of Creation

12 November 1862

Dates Mentioned

1862-11-12

To His Excellency James F Robinson
Governor of the Commonwealth of Kentucky

Your petitioner respectfully represents that he has been arrested and fined in the City Court ^of Lexington^ in the sum of Fifty Dollars and costs, for carrying a concealed deadly weapon.

Your petitioner further states that he is a member of the Home Guards at Winchester and did not feel safe without a weapon to defend himself against attacks from Southern men and sympathiser, and hence he carried a weapon, which was carried not with any intention of disreguarding the law but that he believed that the safety of his person demanded such a precaution Wherefore he prays to be discharged from his liability for said fine as far as in your power lies.

Dan McGrath

Sworn to before me this 12^th day of November 1862.

Z. Gibbons. N. P.

The undersigned unites in the prayer of the Petitioner, believe the facts as stated are true, and the City Attorney for himself states ^he^ that has remitted all fees to which he is entitled in the above case.

Z. Gibbons City. Atty.
Speed S. Goodloe
City Judge

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