Petition

W. R. Hydes, Jr. et al. 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
R3-386 to R3-387
CWGK Accession Number
KYR-0001-029-0260
Rights
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FTP Identifier
32211462

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Dates
1862-10
1863-02-09
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Citation

W. R. Hydes, Jr. et al. 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-0001-029-0260 (November 14, 2026).

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To His Excellency J. F. Robinson
Governer of the State of Kentucky.

The petitioners would respectfully represent to your Excellency, that G. G. Knapper was indicted in the City Court of Louisville for an assault committed on the person of E. Noll and at the October Term of said Court 1862, was fined in the sum of Fifty dollars, the commissions on the amount and costs of the case amount to nearly thirty dollars and Mr. Knapper is a poor man with a family to support. We are well acquainted with Mr. Knapper, he is an inoffensive man, and we never knew him in a difficulty before. We are acquainted with the facts of this case and feel fully warranted in saying that the assault was not of an aggravated character. We respectfully ask your Excellency to remit the fine against the said G. G. Knapper.

W. R Hydes Jr
Phil Tomppert Jr
Wm Springer
Marcus Cohen
Louis [Goodman]
Theodor Droppelmann

Mr Knapper is a quiet & industrious man & from all the circumstances Known before the trial & from what I have learnedsince the trial, I think a remission of $25 — of the fine would be well Enough.

W, G, Reasor, City Atto
Geo. W. Johnston

[Page 2] L. Rosenthal
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Wm Dargel
W Huebner
Joseph Schmelz.
W Kaufmann
Chas Rehner
G H Hollenkamp
Theodore Gross
Franz Walter
H Smith
J. F. Frick
H. Seekamp
H.. Wibben
J. Wahl
W B. Rammers
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J. Seiff
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Louisville City Ct

G G. Knapper
Pettn for Rem of fine
Twenty five dollars of the fine remitted
$25.00

J F Robinson

$50 } assault
Iss' Feby 9. 1863