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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-0001-004-2293 BR15-168 to BR15-169

Louisville, Jefferson County, Kentucky Louisville, Jefferson County, Kentucky 1865-08 Petition English Version 1 of page "3": Changes to page transcript. Version 0 of page "3": Empty transcript -- probably initial upload of page facsimile. Version 1 of page "2": Changes to page transcript. Version 1 of page "1": Changes to page transcript. Version 0 of page "2": Empty transcript -- probably initial upload of page facsimile. Version 0 of page "1": Empty transcript -- probably initial upload of page facsimile.
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To his Excellency Thomas E Bramlette Gov, of Ky

Your petioner Robert Ward would respectfully State, that on the first day of November 1862 he was convicted of the crime of Larceny in the Jefferson Circuit Court, and Sentenced to be imprisoned in the Penitentiary for five years at hard labor, and that soon after his conviction he was confined in Said Penitentiary and has remained there ever since. Your petitioner fother says that he was confined in the Jefferson County Jail for months, which together is more then three years. Imprisonment alreddy suffered for a Crime of which your petitioner Sollemly declares he never was guilty, but was convicted through the prejudicial influance from certain officials in the capasaty of watchman: But your petitioner respectfully submits that even if he had been guilty that the majesty of the law hashe would have been fully vindicated.

Your petitioner would fother state that he has conducted himself well from his boyhood up as also ever since his confinement in said Penitentiary, and that if it is true

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that Law is not so much for vengence as it is to reform, then he thinks as before said that even if he had been guilty, that he has alreddy been ^punished^ anough;

Wherefore your petitioner respectfully Prays your Excellency to exercise your Executive Clemency and grant him a Pardon: Respectfully Submitted, Aug 1865

We the undersigned Citizens of Louisville would suggest that we believe the above is a case which deserves the interference of Your Executive Clemency, and we therefore pray that your Excellency will grant him his parden;

Names D Collins Jasper John Schoeder Henry Strader Henry Miller Wm. Andrew John Callf John Tezirl Mickel Daniel OConnor Michael Donoghue John Murphy Timothy Moriarty John T Norwood Names A. Kempf Names F G Dannecker E. J. John McCarthy Jas Harris Saml MatlockJ P John N Mattingly Chas A. Walter, D S M. J. Schmitt. John Joyes Joseph Clement J P L, W, Sale B. F. Trimble D. C L. C. C. Chas A. Smith D. Court L. C. C.

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Miro K Shuell John I Mearrs James Shuell Phil Tomppert Jr Clerk Cir Court James C. Gill Coroner Names John Knapp Henry Schmitt John Keanne Charles Schaber. Daniel Henry Dunker John Fritsch Peter Knobloch Johann L Kinstler Names Names Philip Tomppert Mayor R. M. J. Pound L. A. Wood.