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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-0001-004-3400 BR42-273 to BR42-274

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To his Excellency Thomas. E. Bramlette Govenor of the State of Kentucky

The undersigned Petitioners would most respectfully represent to you their petition in behalf of John Hays Dennis Hays & Thomas McCann who were Indicted at the August Term of the Bracken Circuit Court for a breach of the Peace and at the February Term 1864 was tried by Jury who assessed their fine at twenty five dollars Each Your petitioners believe from the Evidence introduced on the trial of the above cause that the said John Hays Dennis Hays & Thomas McCann did not commit the ^a^ breach of the Peace Maliciously as charged in the Indictment but that the said defendants did go to the house of one Thomas Williams in search for a Man accused of ^Grand^ Larceny and that the Man whom they were in search of was seen at the house of the Said Thomas Williams on that day. and the above named defts went to Search for the accused in open day light, and went to the house of the said Thomas Williams through just motive and with no intention of committing a breach of the Peace. no injury was done to any one neither to the Said Williams nor his Family. Your petitioners would further State that the said John Hays Dennis Hays & Thomas McCann are Industrious, peaceable and quiet Citizens and all of them poor men. Your petitioners would therefore most respectfully ask your interference in their behalf and that you would release the said John Hays & Dennis Hays & Thomas McCann from the payment of said fine, as we earnestly believe they acted in good faith, and with no intention whatever of inflicting any Injury upon any Person, but their visit to the house of Thomas Williams

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was made in good faith and for the Express purpose of apprehending the Man charged with Larceny and for whose Arrest a warrant was then issued and in the homes of the said John Hays Dennis Hays & Thomas McCann

For Your petitioners would therefore most Respectfully & Earnestly ask your Excellency to release the said Defts from the fine of which they now stand convicted by the of the Bracken Circuit Court which relief we think they are entitled to

Subscribers Names J M Bradford S. B. C Y T Power J W Bowman L V Gillaspy J M R Corlis John H Smarr H. A. Day Ruben Smarr R. W Flores John. T. Downard Martin Finn B. C. Clayton Jos Adamson Jas. M. Mitchell J W E Clayton C. E. Ware John Ware Jacob J Y Butlore Wm Adams R B McDonald J M Smarr Subscribers Names W. D. Ratcliffe Jas. Donavan A Matthews A G Mcdonald Henry Stoll Franklin Metcalfe B. G. Willis Samuel Frank James W Melvin A. D. Flores W T Perkins Ebert Hunter John Selors M. Ware Alfred P Judd J S Whisner George Hamilton C. H. Lee S N Moore J. B. Clarke

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R. J. Harvey W Gorin Aaron Morford Henry Wiley S W Norton Darius.W. Madison Luther J. Kidder Peter Bonfield Thomas Hackett William Gleeson Robbort Sellers John Tucker William Parris Gorge Gollton William W Poe John Sherlock Martin Dwyr Edward Flood Luke Flood Patrick Flood Patrick Flannery John Flannery Michal Flanery L Golden Daniel Dawson Wiliam C Dawson John Goldon T S Sellers John F Gleeson William T Gleeson D. S OBryan M K Cook A N Gleeson S S Bonfield Dan W Bonfield P T Sherlocke Patrick OBrine Denis OBrine Wm Perkins Jessie T. W. S. Smith

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Bracken Cir Ct vs John Hays & others

Refused 64