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J. P. Walkers Sentence expires th 1863
Frankfort Penatentiary st 1863.
To his Excelency. The Govanor.
By permission of the keeper in charg of this Institution I address you these lines, setting forth the offence for which I was convicted -- and the course I intend to persue in the future.
I was tried and convicted, for two years confinement in the state's prison, at the
Those tools consisted of three brass dwelling-house keys filed in a mannor called skeletons. They ware found in the beaureau drawr in the house where I was boarding in which also was found a rail-road tickett belonging to me which I had purchest the day previous for the purpose of going home to New york.
Being a stranger without friends or means I could make but a feable defence, and was consequently convicted.
I have a good trade and am resolved when free to make an honest living, and by a proper course ofI shall endeavor to wipe out the stigma that now blights my character. And that I may once more have a right to the Elective franchise as a free American Citizen. I do implore the exersise of your Executive Clemency in the granting of a pardon for my offence.
J. P. Walker.
J. P. Walker convict asks pardon to restore him to elective franchise
I am informed that he is a bad man. He ought not be reinvested with the Right he desires. Rejected
J F Robinson