Agnes Ashby's “The Family Tree” Feb 17, 1972

 

T. J. Hunt and the Stagecoach Robbery - Part Two

Two page letter from H. C. Gorin to Governor of Kentucky (Mr. Gorin was an attorney in Glasgow, KY and might have been appointed to represent Mr. Hunt):

                    Second page of Gorin letter:

                    absolute want and are dependent on him for their living.  There are two                                    indictments against him, one for robbing the stage going towards the cave and                        the other for  robbing the stage coming from the cave.  Both robberies were                              committed by the same parties, James & Ryan, and at the same time.

                   I send you certified copies of the indictments and the verdict of the jury                                      convicting him upon one of them.

                   Leaving the matter to your Excellency's sense of justice.

                   I am very respectfully yours,

                   H. C. Gorin

The following are official court records from Barren County, KY:

This completes the T. J. Hunt documents.  Thanks again to Robert and Noreen Friedel.

T. J. Hunt and the Stagecoach Robbery - Part One

       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.”

       Later I received information from Laura Hunt Angel that explained Mr. Hunt's full name was Thomas Crutchfield Hunt and that his information was in Ancestry.com; this information confirmed my original post.  That was the Sep 2019 update.

      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 a two page letter from the Commonwealth Attorney (District Attorney) to the Governor:

Next is Mr. Hunt's three page letter to the Governor (due to paper size I had to clip it together):