Petition

Thomas Tuttle and W. J. Crook et al. to Thomas E. Bramlette

Document Genre
Petition
Repository
Kentucky Department for Libraries and Archives
Collection
Office of the Governor, Thomas E. Bramlette: Governor's official correspondence file, petitions for pardons, remissions, and respites 1863-1867
Box / Folder
BR11-420 to BR11-421
CWGK Accession Number
KYR-0001-004-1248
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FTP Identifier
32204135

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Dates
1864-08
1864-10-04
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Thomas Tuttle and W. J. Crook et al. to Thomas E. Bramlette, Office of the Governor, Thomas E. Bramlette: Governor's official correspondence file, petitions for pardons, remissions, and respites 1863-1867, Kentucky Department for Libraries and Archives. Accessed via the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, https://discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/KYR-0001-004-1248 (November 14, 2026).

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To his Excellency the Governor of the Commonwealth of Kentucky

The undersigned Petitioners would respectfully represent that at the ^last^ August Term of the Laurel Circuit Court They were tried for the offence of gaming and found guilty and fined in the sum of $2000 each They state that the facts as they existed and as proved were that your petitioners and two other men were engaged in a game at cards where ^there was^ liquor was for sale the run of the game was. that the two that beat were to drink while the other two were not to drink but pay the bill — in this way the game was played merely for amusement and pass time without your petitioners knowing that such gaming was a violation of law — as the times are somewhat hard in this section and the means of the undersigned limited They therefore pray your Excellency to remit said fines

Thomas Tuttle
W. J. Crook

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I heard the evidence upon which the above mentioned fines were assessed and know that it was substantially as stated in the foregoing petition Said Crook and Tuttle are poor men and in my Judgment the good of society would not suffer by said fines being remitted

C B Faris Clerk
Laurel Cir, Court

The undersigned are citizens of Laurel County and well acquainted with said Crook and Tuttle and believe said fines ought to be remitted

Rholand Hodges
S Ewen Jones
Wm Lemar
Wm. R. Jones Sqr
S C Jackson

Laurel Cir Ct
vs
Tuttle & W. J. Crook
$20, each
Remit
4th Oct/64