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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-0001-020-2154 MG24-246

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Jas H Garrard

I have written a Petition of Austin Reid asking the Governor to pardon him for stabbing Green. I have also included a letter therein to the Governor I would be glad you would aid Aus in the matter, the Governor will not probably be ready to rely upon my statement as I am Reeds Counsel but I say to you as a gentleman I believe every statement within petition and letter to be strictly true. It is very hard under the circumstances that he should be harrassed with the burden and expense of the matter any further, it has already been an enormous expense, and it is now on the docket only to gratify Greens malice -- because Durham would have been ready and was ready at the last Term to let a majority of the Jury make the verdict, but Green would not commit to it, and therefore Durham would not -- they never can convict Reid, and there can be no wrong in the Governor's inferen ^interference^

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Yrs Respectfly &c W. H. Randall