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He is still quite sick, and it was necessary to haul him from the Court House to the jail after conviction. Feeling satisfied that further confinement would probably result in his death in a short time, i drew a petition to the Governor for his pardon this petition was signed by the judge who presided by the solicitor who prosecuted by the sheriff & clerk and by eleven of the jury who tried the case (the other having left) and by several bystanders. I presented the petition this morning to Gov. Pattace who promptly granted the pardon and the boy will be discharged from the jail this afternoon. He tells me that he came