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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-0001-004-2963 BR43-42 to BR43-43

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To Gov. Bramlett --

The undersigned citizens of Paducah and McCracken County, state that are two indictments pending in the McCracken Circuit Court agst T. D. Conner one for Shooting at ^Mat Scott^ (without wounding) & the other for Shooting at Tom Allen (without wounding) we state that both these indictments were for acts done during the war, that in one of the both case^s^ Conner was arrested and brot before Judge Smedley Police Judge of the city of Paducah and he tried the Same and decided that Conner should pay the cost in each case; since which decision the Grand Jury have indicted said Conner in both cases as above Set forth and they are now pending agst him -- we state that Conner has been a resident of our City and County for last ten years he is a peaceable quiet man Stands high in our community as a man of honor probity & good demeaner. he is however a poor man and should not in our Opinion be longer harrassed by these prosecutions we therefore earnestly but respectfully ask the interposition of Your Excellency in his behalf

J. B. Harrison G. F. Barnes

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