Cave City Ky 16^th Jany 1865
Gov. T. E. Bramlette
D^r, Sir,

At the last Term of the Barren Circuit court an indictment was found against Mr E. K. Owsley for hog-stealing; I have no hesitancy in stating that I believe said charge to be false unfounded and malicious. I have known Mr Owsley ever since he came to Mam, Cave in 1861, and know him to be a man of strict honor and integrity. When he became Proprietor of of the Hotel at this place he purchased of the former proprietor and some other parties a lot of hogs that were running out in common with other hogs belonging to divers persons, and I am satisfied that if hogs were Killed by Mr Owsley^s employees ^that did not belong to him^ it was done without his knowledge or consent. I understand that the three principal witness in the case were Thos. H. Waters Robt. Shaw & Philip Wilder. The two former I have known long and well, and to say the least they are men of very doubtful veracity and so regarded in this community. The latter I know but little about except that there was at the time of the finding of the indictment a very bad state of feeling existing between him and Mr Owsley growing out of the fact that Mr Owsley had

some time previously discharged ^him^ from his employ.

Very Respectfully
Your Obt Svt.
C. Roberts

I know Judge C. Roberts to be a gentleman, of high inteligence and undoubted veracity
W. F. Evans
Jany 23^d 1865