The People of the State of Illinois v. Arch Means et al., Indictment

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KYR-0001-006-0001

Document Genre

Legal/Financial

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Kentucky Department for Libraries and Archives

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

Item Location

BR6-1 to BR6-1A

Place of Creation

Olney, Richland County, Illinois

Date of Creation

28 April 1864

Dates Mentioned

1863-11

1863-08-10

1863-11-16

1864-04-28

1863-11-19

The People of the State of Illinois v. Arch Means et al., Indictment, 28 April 1864, Office of the Governor, Thomas E. Bramlette: Governor's Official Correspondence File, Requisitions for the Return of Fugitives from Justice, 1863-1867, BR6-1 to BR6-1A, Kentucky Department for Libraries and Archives, Frankfort, KY. Accessed via the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/KYR-0001-006-0001, (accessed November 4, 2025).

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(copy of Indictment)
Of the November Term of the Richland Circuit Court in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and Sixty three
State of Illinois,
Richland County. } SCT

The Grand Jurors, chosen, selected and sworn, in and for the County of Richland in the name and by the authority of the people of the State of Illinois, upon their oaths, present that Arch Means Hugh T Anderson Mary Ann Adams, E T Folwell and Alvy H Inynes late of the county of Richland and State of Illinois, on the tenth day of August in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and Sixty three at and in the county aforesaid, one Thomas M Adams then and there being did then and there feloniously, forcibly, fraudulently and without having Established any claim according to the laws of the United States forcibly steal take ~~away~~ and arrest and bind the said Thomas M Anderson then and there being a white male person did carry without the limits of this State and into another State contrary to the form of the Statute in such case made and provided, and against the peace and dignity of the said people of the State of Illinois.

And the Grand Jurors, aforesaid, chosen, selected and sworn, in and for the said county of Richland aforesaid, in the name and by the authority of the people of the State aforesaid, upon their oaths aforesaid, do further present, that the said Arch Means, Hugh T Anderson, Mary Ann Adams, E T Folwell, and Alvy H. Saynes late of the said county of Richland and State aforesaid on the tenth day of August, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and Sixty three at and in the county aforesaid did steal away one Thomas M Adams feloniously, fraudulently and and forcibly from the county of Richland and State of Illinois the same being his place of Residence and carried him without the State of Illinois without having established a claim according to the laws of the United States and into the limits of another State,
contrary to the form of the Statute, in such case made and provided, and against the peace and dignity of the said people of the State of Illinois.

Ed S Wilson State Atty
Pro Tem

State of Illinois
Richland County } ss

Richland County Circuit Court November Term 1863, began and held in the court house in Olney in said County & State aforesaid on the 16^th day of November 1863, and on the fourth day of said Term, "The grand Jury returned into open court the following as a true Bill of Indictment

The People
vs } Indictment for Kidnapping
Arch Means
Hugh T Anderson
Mary Ann Adams
E, F, Folwell
Alvy H Saynes

ordered by the court that the Defendents be held to bail in the sum of five hundred dollars Each"

State of Illinois
Richland County } ss

I John Wolf Clerk of the Circuit Court within and for said County do hereby certify that the above is a true and correct copy of an Indictment filed in my office, and also a true copy of the order of our said Court as appears on record in my office in the above Entitled cause.

Given under my hand and Seal of office at Olney this 28^th day of April 1864

John Wolf Clerk
{CIRCUIT COURT RICHLAND COUNTY
ILLS}

(copy of back of Indictment)

The People &c
vs
Arch Means
Hugh T. Anderson
May Ann Adams
E. T. Folwell
Alvy H. Saynes

Indictment for
Kidnapping

A True Bill
J Hofman
Forman

Witnesses
J. B. Adams
Harriet Bostick
Nancy Snodgrass
S. S. Snodgrass
Danl Schroder
Thos Logan
Joseph Berry
Wendall
Hannah Snodgrass

Bail $500. Each

Filed Nov 19^th 1863
John Wolf clk

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