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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-0001-004-1957 BR14-88 to BR14-89

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To his Excellency Thomas E Bramlette Gov of Ky

Your Petitioner Wm Lohn would respectfully State, that he is a young man 25 years old; and that on the 23th day of Decbr. 18654 he was arrested on a charge of Larceny Burglary and on the 19 day of January 1865 he was tried and convicted of said Crime in the Jefferson Circuit Court, and sentenced to confinement in the Penitentiary at Frankford for a Term of four years, where he since been confined at hard labor,

Your Petitioner says he had been living with his Uncle for Some time, doing and tending to smal earents for him and your Petitioner unfortunately and to his great Sorrow and regrett, drank to much ardent Spirits, and was charged with ^breaking in and^ stealing some money goods from his uncle and this was whilst he was ^so^ Intoxicated that he did not know what he was doing.

Your Petitioner fother Says he was prosecuted with a Great deal of ill fealing from his uncle, for which however he does not blame him however as he had done wrong, but Since his uncle has found out that your

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and is satisfied that your Petioner greatly regrett what he has done he is very desirious for his release your Petitionor says that this is the first and only crime he has ever been guilty or charged with and that as he did not have his mind sufficiently Clar to know what he was about he therefore hopes and earnestly prays that your Excellency will exercise Your Pardoning power and grant your Petitioner a Pardon, as he has alreddy suffered greatly in body and mind Since his arrest and confinement,

Respectfully Submitted

We the undersigned citizen of Louisville and officers of the Court would respectfully State that we consider the above a proper Subject for the interposition of your Excellencies Executive clemency and we respectfully pray your Excellency to grant him a Pardon

F G Dannecker Geo Jonas Inter C. C. W G Reasor J D Duncan M. E. Burkhart S. A. Atchison jr. J. D. McCarthy Jos Clement. P J H Saml Matlock J. P. L. A. Wood. Jack Fry W. C. Mills E. W. Rutledge C J C 3d District Selby Harney

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Brent. Hopkins, Depty Comr Lou: Chy Court. James Harris Jacob Mayer Henry Greve Julius Esthmann Henry Knofel Wm Vogt Fred. Frishe N. P. Geo W Doan J. P. J. C R. M. J. Pound C. Henry Finck J Dolfmyre Jacob Krieger Sr Phil Tomppert Jr A. Akers Deputy Marshal Ed Megleney Dep Mar August Stein J. Haathauser H Reiling Philip Speed

The firm of Greve Buhrlage & Co was the party of whom the goods were taken and who had Wm Lahn prosecuted, they now ask that the Governor pardon him, He has served since May 1865 in the penitentiary

Greve Buhrlage & Co