Posted on 06/18/2023 8:42:58 PM PDT by CheshireTheCat
On this day in Kentucky in 1827, a plainly guilty murderer who was on to his third trial received an unconditional pardon. His name was Isaac Desha and his father, Joseph, was the state governor.
The murder was committed in 1824. Isaac Desha had separated from his wife, who was reportedly “terrified” of him, and was staying in Richard Dogget’s roadside tavern/inn on the border of Fleming County. On November 2 of that year, Francis Baker showed up and checked himself into the inn. A newspaperman from Mississippi, he was en route to New Jersey where he planned to get married. He was well-dressed and had a lot of luggage with him.
Baker wanted to visit a local man whom Desha also happened to know, and Desha volunteered to take him there. The two men set off together, Desha riding his bay horse and Baker on a gray mare, carrying two saddlebags.
They never arrived at their mutual acquaintance’s home.
Two hours later, a neighbor named Milton Ball noticed a gray mare, with saddle and bridle but no rider, wandering aimlessly on the highway. He caught it and was trying to find the owner when he encountered another riderless horse. This one he recognized as Desha’s. It had a saddle but no bridle.
Milton Ball got his brother, who took the horse to Desha’s residence. No one was home and he left it there.
As Ball was still trying to identify the gray horse’s owner, he came upon Isaac Desha walking down the road carrying two saddlebags. Desha identified the mare as his own property and took it from Ball, and they parted ways....
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The son lived long enough to murder another innocent man. This time he did not have a father who was governor in the state he committed the crime. He died just before the trial for the second murder started..
In all, he was tried for murder three times, and was convicted every time.
“His father was the governor, who pardoned him to protect his son.”
Puts me in mind of another high ranking gov offical ..
protecting his criminal son .... hmmmm
can’t recall the name ...hmmmm
History is a great teacher, but the class room of life , like the modern intercity classroom, has become overthrown with confusion and the lessons obscured.
Thats ok ...we can just... repeat ...in summer school ....
So he was tried posthumously?
Regards,
No. He was tried for the first murder three times.
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