Legal/Financial

Commonwealth of Kentucky v. Frederick Kohlman, Indictment

1864-05-09

Date of Creation
May 9, 1864
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, Apprehension of Fugitives from Justice Papers, 1863-1867
Box / Folder
BR7-62
CWGK Accession Number
KYR-0001-005-0033
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FTP Identifier
32206292
People
Quarrier, Archibald A.
Kohlman, Frederick
Chambers, James P.
Dupuy, James Robert
Muir, Peter B.
Bramlette, Thomas Elliott
Vondersider, William
Places
Jefferson County, Kentucky
Organizations
Commonwealth of Kentucky
Jefferson Circuit Court
Dates
1864-05
1864-03
1861-05-02
1864-05-09
1864-05-09
1864-05-11
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Commonwealth of Kentucky v. Frederick Kohlman, Indictment, 1864-05-09, Office of the Governor, Thomas E. Bramlette: Governor's Official Correspondence File, Apprehension of Fugitives from Justice Papers, 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-0001-005-0033 (November 12, 2026).

[Page 1]

The Commonwealth of Kentucky,
AGAINST

Frederick Kohlman


Jefferson Circuit Court,
May Term, A. D. 1864.

The Grand Jurors of the County of Jefferson in the name and by the authority of the Commonwealth of Kentucky, accuse Frederick Kohlman of the Crime of Grand forgLarceny committed in manner and form as follows, to=wit: The said Frederick Kohlman in the said County of Jefferson on the [...] day of March A. D. 1864 feloniously took & Carried away one United States Treasury Note of the value & Denomination of Twenty dollars, & another United States Note of the value & denomination of twenty dollars, & one United States Treasury Note of the value & denomination of ten dollars, & divers & sundry United States Treasury notes of different sizes & denominations towit ones & twos amounting to the value of seventy four dollars then and there being found, the property of William Vondersider — contrary to the form of the statute in such cases, made and provided against the peace and dignity of the Commonwealth of Kentucky.

J R Dupuy
Commonwealth's Attorney.

Witnesses
[...]

A Copy

Att Jas P Chambers c J c c

[Page 2]

The within & foregoing indictment was returned by the Grand Jury a true bill. May 2. 1864. and in the 9 day of May 1864 said Case was given to the Jury who returned the following verdict

We of the Jury find the accused guilty of the charge in the indictment & say he shall be Confined in the Jail & Penitentiary for the term of one year, and under the existing Circumstances particularly recommend him to the Clemency of the Executive

A A Quarrier foreman

A Copy Att

Jas P Chambers c J c c

May 9th 1864

The accused is a boy- this, I am satisfied, is his first offence, He proved a good character upon his trial and promises to live honestly in the future. This seems to me a proper case for Executive clemency and I respectfully ^ask^ your Excellency to grant him a pardon

P. B. Muir

J R Dupuy Com Atto.

Jefferson Cir Ct
vs
F, Kohlman

The Commonwealth of Kentucky,
Indictment.
vs }

Pardon Granted

Tho E Bramlette

Grand Larceny
One Year

A True Bill.
11th May/64
Foreman.