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 November 11, 2025 Kentucky Department for Libraries and Archives Office of the Governor, James F. Robinson: Governor's Official Correspondence File, Apprehension of Fugitives from Justice Papers, 1862-1863 KYR-0001-033-0021 R3-45

Henry County, Kentucky Henry County, Kentucky 1862-12-10 Legal/Financial English Version 1 of page "1": Changes to page transcript. Version 0 of page "1": Empty transcript -- probably initial upload of page facsimile.
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State of Kentucky County of Henry } sct.

I, David Fitzgerald, being first sworn, do say that on the night of the 9th Dec'r 1862 about the hour of midnight, I saw forty or fifty men near the jail of the county of Henry, saw lights about the jail, and learned on this morning that a prisoner confined in jail on a charge of murder, named Wm. D. Mitchell had been released from confinedment and taken off by the men who came to the jail --

David Fitzgerald

Sworn to and subscribed before me this 10th day of December 1862

Jno. A. Monfort P J H C C