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A Coppy From Union Co To His Excellency Thos. E. Bramlett Gov of Kentucky

At the Last March term of the Webster Circuit Court J C Stevens and Harrison Edmunson Were both Indicted in the Webster Circuit Court for robing S B- Wallace and B. P Wallace in August 1865

Now we the undersigned citizens of the county of Webster and Union Counties without regard to party or polatics have Learned with regrett that an application has been made to your Excellency for their pardon Signed by Sundrie citizens of Critenden and other counties We donot know what Special Grounds they rely upn for clemency We would therefore represent to your Excelency that J C Stevens was a Union Soldier during a portion of the war and that Edmonson was a rebbell soldier or Guerrilla Neither were Soldiers at the time of the alleged rebery that both of the Wallaces were Southern men in their feelings They would state that S B and B P. Wallace were not the only men robed in Webster County but that not less than Twenty persons were robed during the Summer and fall of 1865 without regard to party and that in the night time and by parties who were often in diguise These reberies were so prevalent that no man felt safe and in fact none were safe we would therefore beg of Your Excelency to withhold or reserve the proposed pardon (if your Excelency is disposed to grant it) untill a Jury passes on the merit