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 November 11, 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-0001-020-1167 MG20-326 to MG20-327

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We are asked to give our recollection of the Substance of the Testimony in the case of the Commonwealth against Washington Wiegert Eblin now confined in the Penitentiray --

It was proved that McCardy the deceased was standing at the corner of Montgomery and St Clair Streets hollowing "hurrah for Todd" Wiegert Eblin who was very drunk cried out hurrah for hell Each continued to hollow until Wiegert Eblin fired his pistol at McCardy and shot him I have had no quarrel nor unkind feeling between them according to the proof

It was proved by Robt Brauner and several others that for Several years Wiegerts Eblins mind was evidently affected. In their Judgment he was crazy at the time of the killing

It was shown that Wiegert had no arms on him when he first approached McCardy Eblin Wiegert asked for a knife and a man named Mershon handed him the Pistol with which he shot McCardy -- We Petition the Govr that he be Pardoned June 13. 1861

Jno Rodman Tho N Lindsey

We the undersigned members of the Frankfort bar unite with Jno Rodman & T M Lindsey in their petition

W. H. Sneed S. Hord

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Chas G. Craddock D. W. Lindsay Jno M Harlan

I defended Eblin, and remember the evidence of Brauner and Wiegart particularly- which showd to my mind most clearly that Eblin was and had been a cracked man too crazy to be the subject of punishment. If I remember there was little or no evidence of his sanity, except he was a good hand to work, and fair in his dealings

A. J. James

I think the that Eblin ought to be Pardoned under the circumstances.

J. Harlan

The statements made above are pretty much as I now recollect them to have been made by the witnesses at the time -- with the exception of the fact that the snatched the pistol from Mershan instead of it handed to the prisoner by Mr M -- I heartily join in the prayer for his pardon

P. U. Major comth Atty prosceuting the case