Legal/Financial

Edmund Rowe, Affidavit

1863-07-30

Date of Creation
July 30, 1863
Place of Creation
Ohio County, Kentucky
Document Genre
Legal/Financial
Repository
Kentucky Department for Libraries and Archives
Collection
Office of the Governor, James F. Robinson: Governor's Official Correspondence File, Apprehension of Fugitives from Justice Papers, 1862-1863
Box / Folder
R3-85 to R3-86
CWGK Accession Number
KYR-0001-033-0051
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FTP Identifier
32212214

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Dates
1863-07-22
1863-07-30
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Citation

Edmund Rowe, Affidavit, 1863-07-30, Office of the Governor, James F. Robinson: Governor's Official Correspondence File, Apprehension of Fugitives from Justice Papers, 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-0001-033-0051 (November 14, 2026).

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Commonwealth of Kentucky
County of Ohio } Sct

Edmund Rowe a citizen of the County & State aforesaid states on oath that he has good reason to believe and does believe that in the County & State aforesaid on the 22nd day of July 1863 one Thomas Rice did feloniously & wilfully & with force rob one Wm P Render of a horse ^belonging to affiant^ and took said horse away from the possession of said Render ^& from affiants possession^ and converted him to his own use. The said Rice is now in the State of Indiana in Spencer County & the town of Rockfort and confined to Jail — upon some charge against him in that County He has procured a warrant for his arrest which is now in the hands of the Sheriff of Ohio County Ky — and he feels confident that

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an Indictment will be found against said Rice for the robbery aforesaid at the next Term of the Ohio Circuit ^Court^ Wherefore he prays the Governor of this State to demand said Thomas Rice from the Governor of Indiana and that such steps be taken as will cause the return of said fugative to this County

Edmund Row

Sworn to by Edmund Rowe before me this 30th of July 1863

D. S. Hill P J O C C