Paducah Ky May 4^th 1864
Gov^r Bramlette
D^r Sir

Mr Saml Miles the bearer of this visits you in distress — about 8 or 9 months ago his son W^m Miles was arrested under a charge of three robberies in one night & held to bail in 1000$ each case when court sat in Ballard County Bill failed to come up & his bond with his father the bearer ^security^ was forfeited & since a Jugt went on These. Execution is in the sherrifs hands & levied on the old mans land & tobacco also he has & not enough to pay the Jud^t of $3000 in the aggregate. & is advertized for sale & so the old man & his wife are about to be harmless homeless — the defendant Bill Miles has joined Forests band — The old man as you will see is quite ignorant & I believe when he went security thought his son innocent, however I suppose he did what any parent would do — from the evidence I cannot say any thing in favor of his son I only feel sorry for the father — The old man comes up and wishes to pay any perquisites & get from you all the leniency you can properly show- The old gentleman has always born the name of an honest man as I am Told — I suggest the propriety of letting him off with all that is coming

to the state but $1000 & give him one year on that, it added to my perquisites will be $1900 — I suggest further that if in a year he will produce Bill Miles for Trial to let him off with the $1000

Your ob
P D Yeiser

P.S. I wrote you recently in regard to some respites you had given in Ballard & Graves countys for 1 year in which you made no savings for costs & my perquisites, so that now the sheriff will not levy for that much or clerks issue executions, I suppose this was an oversight — further the fines respited were replevied & no provision made to hold the security in replevin bond the respite not withstanding —

Yeiser