Petition

John Arnold and Fredrick Dangler to James F. Robinson

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
R4-413
CWGK Accession Number
KYR-0001-029-0577
Rights
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FTP Identifier
32211779
People
Dangler, Frederick
Robinson, James Fisher
Arnold, John
Organizations
Commonwealth of Kentucky
Louisville City Court
[unknown] Hotel
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Citation

John Arnold and Fredrick Dangler 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-0001-029-0577 (November 12, 2026).

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To His Excellency James F. Robinson
Govenor of Kentucky

Your petitioners John Arnold & Fredrick Dangler would respectfully state, that they were indicted for assault & Battery in the Louisville City Court, & were tried upon said indictment & fined fifty dollars $5000/00. & costs.

Your petitioners keep a tavern on market street bet 4th & 5th streets, & the man assaulted stoped a day & night at petitioners Tavern, & attempted to depart without paying his bill, he made his way to the back of the building & was in the act of climbing a very high fence when petitioners pulled him from the fence, & dealt him two light blows, & then conducted him to the front of the building & let him go his way. The man assaulted was disipated & without the means of living.

Your petitioners did not inflict severe injuries, nor did they intend such a thing, but did it simply to detere him from springing for his living.

Your petitioners are new beginners in Tavern keeping, & are unable to pay the finde

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& costs, & they respectfully ask your Excellency to remit the fine

John Arnold
Fredrick Dangler

Pettn Jno Arnold &c to remit fine

(Read & refused)