Catlettsburg, Ky.
Oct, 21^st 1865
To His Excellency
Gov. Bramlett
Dr. Sir

Robt. Eastham Esq of Boyd County went the security of a man by the name of Robt. Christy for his appearance at the Boyd Circuit Court on a charge of Gr. Larceny for the sum of three hundred Dollars; bond was forfeited & Judgment at this term for the amount in favor of the Com^th — I have been solicited by the best citizens here to ask you to remit the Com^th part of it, upon the ground that M^r Eastham went the security of M^r Christy believing honestly that the takeing of the watch with which Christy was charged with, was all a joke, & not felonious, & did not want to see Christy lay in jail & his family suffer when he honestly believed him to be innocent — the watch turned out be a different man's from what Christy believed at the time, & Christy failed to make his appearance, getting scared over the seriousness which the matter assumed. M^r Eastham is not a man to shield a crime in any form but is one of the most efficient men in bringing it to justice, & under the peculiar circumstances under which he was innocently betrayed into this case, I think it but right for me to make this statement, & ask your clemency for him

Your friend
J. S. Dury
Cm^th atty