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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-0001-020-0344 MG18-33

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To Bariah McGoffin Govenor of the Commonwealth of Kentucky

Your petitioners respectfully represent that at the Last Term of the Hickman Criminal and Equity court held in Clinton John W. Long was indicted for the Murder of Wm Long, that the indictment was found by the grand Inquest of the county at said Term and within four days therafter the defendent was placed on trial, that defendent was poor and not able to employ Counsel, that Counsel was assigned him by the Court but from the professional engagements of his said Counsel the defendent Could not avail himself of their Services in his case.

That defendent was placed upon trial and found guilty of Murder in the first degree and by the judgment of the court sentenced to be hung on the 10th dy of August next, Your petitioner would respectfully call your attention to the facts of this case as the same appear from an exemplification of the Record in this case and Earnestly pray the interposition of Executive Clemency in his behalf, and that his punishment by commuted to imprisonment in the Penetentray of this State for any term of years which to your Excellency may seem right and proper

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Names, Wm R. Vance J B Ostrander Geo L Porter John W Slankard T C Yantz C McKinney J. M. Jackson W. Cromwell R. J. Lewis L P Bartlett G. H. Smith David Mason Philip Taylor John. V. Morton Names. B. T,, Haile William Morgan Geo P Heath S K Caldwell Eli Ray W. McK Hubbard A A Gorton J P Ferguson A Russell W. R. Smith Will P. Wilkinson P, P, Elliott -- Wm Cook W. Walker Lublette