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1 Petition to the Governor of New Jersey for the Pardon of Lewis Waldenberger 1861

handle is hein.trials/adfwa0001 and id is 1 raw text is: The following Petition was presented: 7b His Excellncy, the Governor of New Jersey. Whereas Lewis Waldenberger, of the County of Atlantic, was tried at the December Term of the Court of Oyer and Terminer, held in and for the County of Atlantic and was convicted of murder in the first degree, and sentenced to be executed on the 28th of January next; and whereas we, the undersigned, have entertained, and do now entertain, grave doubts of his guilt, the wife of the said Lewis being an abandoned woman, living in adultery with one John Zeller, herself suspected of having committed the murder; and whereas, from the circumstantial character of the evidence against him, and the excellent charactcr he has hitherto borne, we firmly believe that he may be innocent of the crime charged against him: we earnestly request that your excellency will grant to the said Lewis Waldenberger, now under sentence of death, a respite till after the meeting of the Court of Pardons, that his case may be fully laid before the Court by his counsel, aud that ample justice may be done to the said Lewis Waldenberger, who is a foreigner in our country and a stranger to our laws. And your petitioners ever pray, &c. Timothy Hendeon, John Abbott, Jos B. Walker, Andrew P. Hugg, S. Hanthorne, Benjamin Gasbink, Wm. Bartlett, James H. Major, Chas. A. Ogden, Job Hand, Daniel Townsend, Henry Mason, Lewis Clark, John C. Abbott, D. S. Blackman, Jno. H. Doughty,

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