To His Excellency Beriah Magoffin

Governer of the State of Kentucky.

Your Petitioner John Dohn, a citizen of the City of Louisville, will respectfully state that on the 6^th day of September 1860. upon the trial of an Indictment for a Misdemeaner, in the City Court of Louisville, he was fined by the verdict of a jury the sum of One Hundred Dollars; and the cicrcumstances under which the alledged Assault & Battery was committed are as follows, viz.

Petitioner, and one John Probts Peter Hurbts, the person upon whom the Assault was alledged to have committed, occupied ^parts of^ the same house, and used the cellar in commen, that prior to the findings of said Indictment, the said John Probts Peter Hurbts at a late hour of the night. accused Petitioner of permitting the workmen employed in his Bakery to steal his Beer, and upon your Petitioner's denial of said accusation made a violent assault upon Petitioner, and at an early hour of the morning between 4 & 5 o-clock as Petitioner was opening the front door of his Bakery, he renewed

his attack upon Petitioner. No Persons were at the time passing upon the street and the only persons in sight, were at a [...] more than half a square distant who upon examination ofunder said Indictment, mistook your Petitioner defense of his person for an Assault upon said ProHurbst, and thus your Petitioner was unable to present the facts to the jury by whom he was as aforesaid tried.

Your petitioner would state that no real injury was sustained by said ProHurbst, no blood shed, and that by circumstances beyond his control he has been made the real sufferedr.

He would state that in December last a petition numerously signed, by citizens, by the Judge & officers of the City Court of Louisville, & ^recommended^ by the City Atty was forwarded to your Honer. praying for a remission of said fine.

He further states that he has paid all fees and costs arising from said fine and would again most earnestly ask your Honer to remit said fine.

He would state that he has but little means, is doing business ^as a Baker^ in a portion of the city inhabited. by persons of limited means, that the complete prostration of business, the want of employment in those who are his customers, it is with great difficulty he can sustain and support a wife and [...] children by the most untiring industry.

Wherefore as in duty bound, he will ever pray &c.

John Dohn

Sworn to & subscribed by John Dohn this 26^th day of October 1861.

A MaasN, P. J, C.

The undersigned unite with Mr Dohn in his Petition & would respectfully ask your Excellency to grant to him the remission as prayed.

I remember a Petition was prepared in this case on which I made a statement — to the effect that Petitioner is a clever man

Louisville City Court
$100. } Misdemeanor
John Dohn
Remission Iss^dNov. 7. 1861