V. B. Young to Richard A. Apperson Jr.

Accession Number

KYR-0001-005-0060

Document Genre

Correspondence

Repository

Kentucky Department for Libraries and Archives

Collection

Office of the Governor, Thomas E. Bramlette: Governor's Official Correspondence File, Apprehension of Fugitives from Justice Papers, 1863-1867

Item Location

BR7-102

Place of Creation

Owingsville, Bath County, Kentucky

Date of Creation

5 May 1865

Dates Mentioned

1865-05-05

1865-04-20

Owingsville Ky May 5^th 1865
Hon R Apperson Jr
Mt Sterling Ky
Dear Judge

On the 20^th of April, Wilkins Warren, brutely murdered a man by the name of Adams in this County near Polksville. The Coroner held an inquest over him and found that he had been brutely murdered by Warren,, Warren took him and tied him to a tree and casterated him, then he cut off his left ear, and after torturing him he shot him twice once through then abdomen, then throug the head, stripped him of his clothing and left him. Adams
as far as known was a peacible quiet man, had been robbed by Guerrillas in Letcher County where he resided and was going in the neighborhood [of sharpsburg] to work,

Revised Statues Vol 1 page 374 Sec 22^d requires that a petition signed by the County Judge or Circuit Judge should be the basis of the action of the Govenor in offering a reward for the apprehension of persons guilty of aggrevated crimes,,

We have no County Judge and I presume the duty will devolve upon you,, Please attend to this at once, Warren was in Maysville on yesterday I sent B W to Mason, Fleming, Bracken Campbell & Kenton,

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