Paterick Casey to James F. Robinson
- Place of Creation
- Louisville, Jefferson County, Kentucky
- Document Genre
- Petition
- Repository
- Kentucky Department for Libraries and Archives
- Collection
- Office of the Governor, James F. Robinson: Governor's Official Correspondence File, Petitions for Pardons, Remissions, and Respites, 1862-1863
- Box / Folder
- R3-360 to R3-361
- CWGK Accession Number
- KYR-0001-029-0240
- Rights
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- FTP Identifier
- 32211442
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Citation
Paterick Casey to James F. Robinson, Office of the Governor, James F. Robinson: Governor's Official Correspondence File, Petitions for Pardons, Remissions, and Respites, 1862-1863, Kentucky Department for Libraries and Archives. Accessed via the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, https://discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/KYR-0001-029-0240 (November 13, 2026).
To his Excellency
Jas F. Robinson — Govenor of the Commonwealth of Kentucky
Your Petitioner, Paterick Casey would respectfully represent to your Excellency, that he was fined at the
Your Petitioner would state that there were circumstances connected with the case that could not be properly brought before the Jury that would cirtainly go in a mittigation of damages that the party he is charged of assaulting was a bitter enemy of his at the time of the alleged assault. that they were both in the employ of the United States government. They were detailed at the time gauding the Louisville & Nashville R. R. Depot The Petitioner left his post for
for a few moments to get a drink of water and the party charged to have been assaulted pick up my gun, which I had laid down for a moment to get the drink, and hid it from me. The intension of the party was so apparent, that is, to injure me and have me turned out of my employment, that I became enraged and assaulted him not doing him any great damage however
The Petitioner would further state that he is a very poor man and dependent upon his daily labor for a support for himself and large family of wife and helpless children that he has paid the cost and city attory's part of the fine and that deprived his family of the actual necessaries of lilfe and if he is compelled to pay the commonwealth's portion his family will be brought to suffering.
For the above reasons the petitioner humbly prays that you may remit the balance of his fine
Paterick Casey
We the undersigned citizens and officers of the City Court of Louisville would state that the petitioner is known to us and we believe that it is a case for Executive clemency
Names
C K. Fairfax
Geo. Jonas Interpreter C. C.
H C Russell D m
Names
W, G, Reasor
City Atto
I concur with Mr Reasor in what he has stated
Geo W Johnston J. C C L
W R Hydes Marshal
Phil Tompfert Jr. C C C L
Louisville City Ct.
P Casey Pettn to remit fine Louisville
$25.00
Twenty five dollars of fine remitted
J F Robinson
$50 } Assault
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