To His Excellency Thos. E. Bramlette Governor of Kentucky.

Your Petitioner states that in the year 1864 he was a tavern keeper in Somerset, and in one of the rooms of his house erected a "Pigeon hole table" — on which the citizens of the town used to play — He states, that it was his express directions that gaming of all kinds was prohibited — He was indicted for keeping a gambling house, and at the present term of the Pulaski Circuit Court, fined $200= It was proven on the trial that men would play on his table, and the unsuccessful party would sometimes pay a treat — this if construed as betting was against his positive orders — He states, that no money or anynor ^nor^ any other thing was never bet at the game to his knowledge, and the proof failed to show any such betting — But it was proven that the young men would play on the table and that the termination of the game pay a treat at some of the groceries in the town —

Your petitioner states, he did not know that thiswasprohibited, if he hadof any such bets as even for whiskey, cigars or treets were made, if he had, he would have stopped it —

He avers he is poor, and that the judgment is oppressive; and unless Your Excellency will remit the same, it will be a great hardship to have it to pay — That if the landws of the land were broken, it was not done by his knowledge or consent= He asks Your Excellency to remit the fine —

x F Rothenhofer

The foregoing petition was sworn to by Fred Rothenhofer before me, that the statements therein awere true, This 3 Ap^l 1865.
x

I Know pretty much of the facts and am of the opinion that the amt which he has to pay for costs & comth atty, is an ample punishment for the offense Committed, The "Pigeon Hole" was not intended or let up to cover gambling but for amusement & the boys about town preverted it into a place to pay treats

E L Van Winkle
C[...] Wirt
Hiram Dugan
Mit E Ingram
W, P, Ingram
W M^cKee Fox
W. B. Moore

Remitted
Richard T Jacob
Lt. & act. Gov.

Pulaski Co
vs
$200
F Rothenhofer
3^d May/65