To His Excellency the Governor of the state of Kentucky

We whose names are hereto subscribed would most respectfully represent to your Excellency that about May 1862, William Henry was convicted in the courts of Louisville Ky, and sentenced to five years imprisonmnet in the Penitentiary at Frankfort. Your petitioners are impressed with the firm conviction that said William Henry, a youth of only eighteen years, was led from the paths of rectitude and propriety by evil associations, and is not naturally a bad young man. He was deprived of the advise and counsil of a parent at that time when parental control is most efficacious, by the death of his father, and has now a mother surviving. She has two sons in the Union army; and is dependent, alone, for his support, upon her own personal efforts.

Your petitioners would most respectfully suggest whether the law

in the conviction and imprisonment of William Henry for two years, has not been fully vindicated. They entertain a most confident hope that William Henry will return to an affectionate, ^mother^ and to the community as a useful member, having learned a lesson by which he will always profit.

We suggest that his case is one which addresses itself to your Excellency. is one entitled to Executive clemency, and we would feel highly gratified, could your Excellency deem it consistent with your official duty: to grant William Henry an unconditional pardon and restore him to his mother & friends at home, and your petitioners will ever pray &c

J M Melbourne

Judge Aglett Buckner of St Louis will send a letter.

W^m Henry
Refused
Jefferson Cir Ct