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 November 12, 2025 Kentucky Department for Libraries and Archives Office of the Governor, Beriah Magoffin: Governor's Official Correspondence File, Petitions for Pardons and Remissions, 1859-1862 KYR-0001-020-0231 MG17-196

Trimble County, Kentucky Trimble County, Kentucky 1860-12-13 Legal/Financial English Version 1 of page "2": Changes to page transcript. Version 0 of page "2": Empty transcript -- probably initial upload of page facsimile. Version 1 of page "1": Changes to page transcript. Version 0 of page "1": Empty transcript -- probably initial upload of page facsimile.
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Trimble circuit Court Commonwealth of Kentucky, Pl'ff, Against } Indictment for Murder Taylor Roberts & Anna G. Roberts Def'ts

The Grand Jury of Trimble County in the name and by the authority of the commonwealth of Kentucky accuse Taylor Roberts and Annie G Roberts of the crime of murder. Committed as follows, viz: The Said Taylor Roberts and Annie G. Roberts in the county aforesaid on the 1st day of March 1858 did feloniously willfully and of their malice aforethought kill and murder Nancy Gardener by wilfully and maliciously giving and administering to her Arsenic and another corrosive and destructive poison from the effects of which She then and their died contrary to the statute and, Against the peace and dignity of the commonwealth of Kentucky

P U Major Commonwealths Attorney

J. Y. Newkirk, Jno Roberts, Martin Roberts, Mrs A. Overton, Mrs C Falkner Mrs Jane Conway Jno Moffit I Mayfield Dr Ely Dr Joseph Rodgers Sr Dr Joseph Rodgers jr W. A Collins

Witnesses for commonwealth

I William Samuel clerk of the county & circuit court hereby certify that the foregoing is a true copy of an Indictment against Taylor Roberts & Annie Roberts at the November term of the Trimble circuit court given under my hand this 13th day of Dec 1860

William Samuel Clerk By G. W. Teague D. C.

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Commonwealth vs } Indictment for murder Taylor Roberts & Anna G Roberts A True Bill C C Holmes Foreman