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 November 11, 2025 Kentucky Department for Libraries and Archives Office of the Governor, Thomas E. Bramlette: Governor's official correspondence file, petitions for pardons, remissions, and respites 1863-1867 KYR-0001-004-1575 BR13-5 to BR13-6

Kenton County, Kentucky Kenton County, Kentucky 1865-03-14 Petition English Version 1 of page "4": Changes to page transcript. Version 1 of page "3": Changes to page transcript. Version 0 of page "4": Empty transcript -- probably initial upload of page facsimile. Version 1 of page "2": Changes to page transcript. Version 0 of page "3": Empty transcript -- probably initial upload of page facsimile. Version 0 of page "2": Empty transcript -- probably initial upload of page facsimile. Version 1 of page "1": Changes to page transcript. Version 0 of page "1": Empty transcript -- probably initial upload of page facsimile.
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To His Excellency Tho. E. Bramlette Govr of Kentucky;

Daniel. W. Egleston, your petitioner, respectfully states that he is a resident of Covington; and has been engaged for a number of years in keeping in said city a licensed restaurat and eating house; that in March last he was somewhat astonished to learn he had been indicted by the grand jury, for what affense he knew not; that upon inquiry he ascertained said charge forwas for selling liquor to one Thomas Dickey -- a minor -- whom your petitioner knew but slightly, and as a man in business; that said Dickey proved, on trial of the cause, he had drank a glass of liquor -- at the house of your petitioner during the Christmas holidays of 1863 (your petitioner did not remember the circumstance) and that he, Dickey, was 21 years old on February 11ththe 5th 1864, only 5 or 6 weeks after Christmas. Your petitioner plead he did not know said Dickey was under 21, had no means of knowing so; and was deceived by his appearance, which

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certainly indicated him to be one and twenty. But the Court overruled such plea, stating that was a matter for Executive clemency.

Your petitioner was fined $50 at the December term for 1864 of the Kenton Circuit Court.

He prays for a remission of this fine. His error was done without the least design on his part to violate any penal law; and he has never been indicted for any violation of penal law save in the matter above referred to=

D. W. Egleston

Subscribed and sworn to before me by D. W. Egleston March 14, 1865

R: Richardson N. P. K. C. Ky

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As acting Attorney for the Commonwealth during the December term for 1864 of the Kenton Circuit Court I can certify that in the case of the Commonwealth vs Daniel W. Egelston, indicted for selling liquor to a minor, which was tried at said December term, it was proved that the minor, Thomas Dickey, who was alleged to have procured said liquor from defendant -- the keeper of a restaurant -- drank the same during the Christmas holidays of 1863; and that said Dickey was one and twenty years of age on the 5th day of February 1864, or about five or six weeks thereafter.

J. R. Hallam

R. R N P 3 14"

R. R N. P. 3 14

I heard all the Evidence in the case of the Commonwealth vs Egleston (J. R. Hallam Esq. then acting as atty for the Comwth) and remember the substance of the same distinctly. The witness -- Thomas Dickey -- who testified he drank the liquor at Mr. Danl Egleston's during the Christmas holidays of 1863 -- and shortly after Christmas to the best of

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my remembrance -- also testified he was 21 years of Age on the 5th day of February 1864 -- I think -- or about 5 or 6 weeks only after the drinking was alleged to have been done. Said witness -- Thomas Dickey -- looked to me as if he were a man grown; and from his appearance, in the absence of positive evidence as to his age, I should have taken him to be about 22 years old. I am satisfied also Mr Egleston was deceived as to the age of this person; and never intended to violate any law in selling him liquor.

S. C Perrin

J B

Subscribed and sworn to before me by S. C. Perrin March 14, 1865

R. Richardson N. P. K. C. Ky.

Kenton Cir Ct vs Petition of Danl W. Egleston

$50. Remitted 15th Mch/65