<title type="main">William Fallen to Thomas E. Bramlett

To His Excellency Thos. E. Bramlette Govenor of Kentucky

Your Petitioner Wm Fallen would respectfully state, that at the October Sept Term of the Louisville City Court 1864. he was convicted of a misdemeanor & sentenced to six months imprisonment in the Jail of Jefferson County.

The misdemeanor charged was trying to facilitate the escape of a prisoner. Your petitioner will admit that the evidence had on the trial was sufficient to convict, but your Excellency knows that many times circumstances may indicate the guilt of an accused person & he be innocent.

Your petitioner will say this much in his own defence, that he never intended to violate the law, that wittingly he did not violate the law

Your petitioner lives in the state of Maryland, far away from home & friends: an aged Mother dependent upon him for surport

a mother whoes heart would be utterly crushed if the terrible tidings reached her that her son, her only son was confined in prison: Sad indeed would be her fate, her hopes all dead, struck with a subtle doom, such as in one short night fell on all the first born of the land of Egypt. It would be hard if I were alone in the world'; but O, how much more terrible it is when I reflect that my mother must beare the pain of my confinement; she the inhabitant of the lowly cabin, strugling with poverty, & may be with disease; her son far away shut up in prison, no one to furnish sustanance to her feble body, none to smooth her sick bed.

Govenor it is a light thing to pardon me, no wrong has been done any one, no wrong was intended: pardon me & I will ever feel greatful, I will never forget my sad dificulty, & as long as I live I will adhear to the right, & my dear mother will be spared the pain I have so feebly endeavored to depict,

Your expectant servant

William. Fallen

We the undersigned citizens of the cityLouisvilleunite in the prayre of the petitioner & respectfully ask that your Excellency grant him a Pardon

H J Billings Thos J. Frazier Geo. Jonas Interpreter C. C. of Louisville. Phil Tomppert Jr C, C, C, L,

I presided at the Trial of the case against the Petitioner, the act charged against him in the Indictment was fully proved to have been committed, but I am Inclined to think he did it when drunk & under the persuasions of some bad men confined in the Prison. I think the punishment he has received is sufficient and I am well satisfied he will not offend in like manner again

Geo. W. Johnston.

being the assistant Jailor I was the principal prosecuting Witness and Think under the circumstances that the petitioner has suffered enough for his offence and I Join in the prayer of the petitioner

Yours Truly H C Thomas

I concur with. Mr Thomas

W. G, Reasor city atto.

Fred'K Wobbe Dpy Clk City Court

Direct to the Jailer of Jefferson County Ky. Louisville Ky

Louisville City Ct vs Wm Fallen 6 mos conft in Jail

Remit

8th Nov/64