Oliver P. Morton, Requisition

Accession Number

KYR-0001-006-0057

Document Genre

Legal/Financial

Repository

Kentucky Department for Libraries and Archives

Collection

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

Item Location

BR6-69

Place of Creation

Indianapolis, Marion County, Indiana

Date of Creation

17 May 1865

Dates Mentioned

1865-05-17

REQUISITION FOR FUGITIVE FROM JUSTICE.
TO HIS EXCELLENCY,
The Governor of the State of Kentucky

It appears by the annexed papers, duly authenticated according to the laws of our State, that John W. Rutherford stands charged by Indictment in the Vanderburgh Circuit Court, State of Indiana with the crime of Perjury and it has been represented to me that he has fled from the justice of this State and has taken refuge in the State of Kentucky

NOW, THEREFORE, I Oliver P. Morton Governor of the State of Indiana, by virtue of the authority vested in me by the Constitution and Laws of the United States, do, by these presents, demand that the said John W. Rutherford be apprehended and delivered to R. A. Dowell who is hereby authorized to receive and convey him to the State of Indiana, that he may abide his trial for the crime with which he stand charged. "The State will pay no part of the expenses of the execution of this Writ."

{Seal}

In Testimony Whereof, I have hereunto set my hand, and caused to be affixed the Seal of the State, at the City of Indianapolis, this Seventeenth day of May in the year of our Lord One Thousand Eight Hundred and Sixty Five, the Forty Ninth year of the State, and of the Independence of the United States the Eighty Ninth

BY THE GOVERNOR:
O. P. Morton

Nelson Trusler
SECRETARY OF STATE.

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