Commonwealth of Kentucky v. William Lohn, Indictment
1865-01
- Date of Creation
- January 1865
- Place of Creation
- Jefferson County, Kentucky
- Document Genre
- Legal/Financial
- 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
- BR13-439
- CWGK Accession Number
- KYR-0001-004-1870
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- 32204757
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Citation
Commonwealth of Kentucky v. William Lohn, Indictment, 1865-01, 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-0001-004-1870 (November 12, 2026).
The Commonwealth of Kentucky,
AGAINST
William Lohn
Jefferson Circuit Court,
The Grand Jurors of the County of Jefferson in the name and by the authority of the Commonwealth of Kentucky, accuse William Lohn of the crime of Burglary committed in the manner and form as follows, to=wit: The said William Lohn in the said County of Jefferson on the [...] day of did take steal and carry away and burglariously did break into and enter in the night time the store house of Wm Greene, Wm Burlage & Julius Eshman with the intent to commit a felony & therefrom did take steal and carry away sundry pieces of hair cloth & damask cloth and pieces of Gimp worth three hundred dollars the property of said Greene, Burlage & Eshman contrary to the form of the statute in such cases, made and provided and against the peace and dignity of the Commonwealth of Kentucky.
J R Dupuy.
Commonwealth's Attorney.
Witnesses:
Julius Eshman & Wm Burlage Edd Beck Henry Greene Jacob Metz Chas Glass, Wms Gunkhern & Jos. Sweeny
A copy
att Jas P. Chambers c J c c
Jefferson Cir Ct
The Commonwealth of Kentucky.
Indictment.
vs { Burglary
Wm Lohn
A True Bill.
G W Herbert
Foreman.
att Jas P Chambers
Refused
State of Kentucky
Jefferson Circuit
Wm Lohn who has been indicted by a Grand Jury of this circuit for felony, and who is now confined in the jail of this county on said charge, was this led to the bar of this Court. by and in the custody of the jailor attending the same & being arranged upon sd indictment plead not guilty thereto & for his trial put himself upon the country and the attorney for the Commonwealth likewise wherefore to try the issue joined let a Jury come and thereupon came a jury towit: John Price W P. Sheppard Jacob Parsons, Geo Swope, G W Grippy J Enders W R Hydes A Campbell J V Cowling, Chas Ketchum. F A Kaye G F: Downs who being duly elected tried & sworn well & truly to try & true deliverance make between the Commonwealth & the accused upon oath returned into court the following verdict — We of the jury find the deft named in the within indictment guilty and say he shall be confined in the jail & penitentiary of this Commonwealth four years —
John Price foreman
and thereupon the prisoner was remanded and taken to jail accordingly
A copy
att Jas P. Chambers clk