State of Kentucky
Pendleton County Sct

This petitioner Morris Orr would respectfully represent to His Excellency the Governor of Kentucky that he was indicted in the Pendleton Circuit Court ^for carrying concealed weapons^ and at its April Term 1861 was fined by sd court $50. — That he did carry said weapon to wit- a pistol — But states that he carried said weapon to be used in his defense only — That threats had been made against him by a certain Moses Lockhart — the same stated by Wilson Wadsworth in his affidavit — that the threats made by said Lockhart were communicated to him by the said Wadsworth, and that he procured said weapon to protect himself against the said Lockhart beleiving that the sd Lockhart would if to in his power take Petitioner's life — That he could not prove these facts before the court upon the trial but that these facts are true — Wherefore he asks that you interpose your executive Clemency and release him from the payment of said fine —

Morris Orr

Sworn to before me by Morris Orr this 6^th day of July 1861. —

Att M Mullins ck

M. Orr — Petition.