On
16 Feb 2019 I posted an article about a stagecoach robbery (that post was
updated 14 Sep 2019) concerning T. J. Hunt, who was reportedly from Ohio
County.
In November 1880
there was a stagecoach robbery near Cave City, Barren County, KY. A man
was arrested in Ohio County and charged with this crime. He was taken to
Glasgow, the county seat for Barren County, tried and convicted. The
newspaper reports said his name was T. J. Hunt and that he had worked at the
McHenry Coal Mines for about five years, that he was married and had at least
one child, and was a resident of Ohio County. The foregoing information
was taken from an article in the Hartford Herald dated 24 Nov 1880 and is attributed to the Glasgow Times. That article also
said that Mr. Hunt had been previously been a teacher in Barren County
("this county").
In an article in
the Hartford Herald dated 19 April 1882 he is called James
Hunt. In an article from the Filson Quarterly (October 1995) he is identified as Thomas J. Hunt.
There is an article about this event in the Courier Journal dated 16 May 1937 and he is identified as “William Hunt
of Ohio County
This week I received more information from Robert and Noreen Friedel about the T. J. Hunt episode. Robert and Noreen are from Beaufort, MO and are Frank and Jesse James historians - Robert wrote a book titled "Frank & Jesse James In Plain Sight." Robert & Noreen sent me 24 documents including a letter from T. J. Hunt to the Governor of Kentucky asking for a pardon, plus petitions from citizens and copies of Court Clerk documents from Barren County (where Hunt was tried and convicted). I will post these documents but due to the number of documents it will take several posts to include them all - I estimate three posts. They are self-explanatory and I will start with the citizen Petition to the Governor.
Next is Mr. Hunt's three page letter to the Governor (due to paper size I had to clip it together):
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