<title type="main">W. W. Cleary to Beriah Magoffin Edition created from new transcripts of this manuscript. Initial upload of this work's facsimile images and metadata to FromThePage for editing Kentucky Historical Society Digital Collections Administrator of the CWGK Migration transcription project on FromThePage Kentucky Historical Society Digital Collections Kentucky Historical Society Digital Collections made 3 edits between June 22, 2025 and June 22, 2025. Dynamic TEI export from FromThePage (version 22.10)

This image and transcription is publicly accessible. The image appears courtesy of the repository named in the Source Description. The transcription and annotation were undertaken by Kentucky Historical Society staff, volunteers, and interns. If referencing this document title, accession number, and permanent URL.

 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-0001-020-2015 MG24-13 to MG24-14

1862-06-17 Correspondence English Version 1 of page "3": Changes to page transcript. Version 0 of page "3": Empty transcript -- probably initial upload of page facsimile. Version 1 of page "2": Changes to page transcript. Version 1 of page "1": Changes to page transcript. Version 0 of page "2": Empty transcript -- probably initial upload of page facsimile. Version 0 of page "1": Empty transcript -- probably initial upload of page facsimile.
1

To his Excellency the Govenor of Ky,

More than a year ago, I was appointed at the Term of the Harrison Circuit Court, Commonwealths Attorney pro tem, in the absence of Wm Mathew the Regular atty for the Commonwealth, as such I attended to the prosecution in the case of Commonwealth against Sam'l Craig for passing Counterfeit Money, He was convicted and sentenced to the Penitentiary for two years, where he now is having served considerably more than half his time, The conviction was had upon the testimony of one witness one Noah Eddleman -- and though he swore positively, that he had seen Craig offer to pass the Counterfeit bill, yet his statement was so

2

indistinct and confused upon every other circumstance connected with the matter, that I was surprised at the time, that the Jury found a verdict against Craig -- Since the trial I am satisfied, that Craig ought not to have been convicted -- that his brother one James Craig, was the really guilty party -- and that Eddleman the witness must have been mistaken in saying that he saw ^said^ Craig in possession of the Counterfeit Bill -- Other witnesses were introducted beside Eddleman, but their testimony ^alone^ would have been insufficient, James Craig has fled the Country, to avoid prosecution for passing the same bill, and attempting to pass it, having tried it, several times before he put it on Saml, I make this statement at the

3

request of Sam'l Craig, who desires a pardon from your Excellency, I have no sort of hesitation, in saying, that I think he ought to be pardoned, I have heard a number of persons in Harrison County speak of the case, who think he ought to be pardoned

Very Respectfully &c W. W. Cleary

June 17th 1862