Legal/Financial

Commonwealth of Kentucky v. Peter Cain and William Walker, Indictment

Place of Creation
Washington 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
BR16-197
CWGK Accession Number
KYR-0001-004-2623
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FTP Identifier
32205507

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Dates
1865-03-01
1865-10-17
1865-11-21
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Commonwealth of Kentucky v. Peter Cain and William Walker, Indictment, 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-0001-004-2623 (November 13, 2026).

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The Commonwealth of Kentucky
against } Washington Circuit Court
Peter Cain & William Walker

the Grand Jury of Washington County in the name and by the authority of the commonwealth of Kentucky accuse Peter Cain & William Walker of the crime of Robbery commited as follows the Said Peter Cain & William Walker on the 1st day of March 1865 in the county aforesaid did feloniously Steal take and carry away one Silver watch of the value of Twenty dollars and Some treasury notes of the United States the number of notes and destination of Each note is unknown to the Grand jury but in all representing thre dollars and of value of three dollars the personal property goods and chattels of John W. Anderson Indsor from his person & in his pressence against his will and by [...]force and putting Said Indsor in fear of Some imimediate injury to his person against the peace and dignity of the commonwealth of Kentucky

Witnesses before the Jury
John W. Indsor
Stephen Indsor

L, H, Noble atty for com'th

Copy attest
J, P, Barbour clk

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Comnmonwealth
Indict
Robbery
Cain & Walker


a true bill
D. M. McIlvoy
Foreman of the Grand Jury
$3,00 for Cain
$5,00 for Walker
Filed Oct 17th 1865
J. P. Barbour clk

Bench Warrant issued for Walker Nov 21 1865.