Brownsville Aug 21st ^565^
To ^the Hon^ T E Bramlette Governor of Kentucky

Your petitioner would humbly represent to your excelency that at the last may term of the edmonson Circuit court a fine was assessed against Mary Jones Wife of R D Jones for the ^sum of^ $20 dollars & cost for selling ardent Spirits in less quantities than alowed by law one time we would represent also that the woman was unlearned and do not think that any thing was done in the premises to try to brake or evade the law also that they are poor people with considerable family of children that Said R D Jones is a cripple for life from an attact of rhumatism some few years since and that they have one boy deformed and idiotic we would therfor respectfuly recommend said Jones to your excelencyes clemency as being worthy of the same Said R D Jones sand Petter Salling state that the inditement and and testimony was got up through ambition

Edmonson Cir Ct
vs
Mrs Mary Jones