John Ambrose: Court Records

State of Arkansas
vs.
John Ambers

J. T. Wilder being swoorn sayes that on or about the 11th of July 1886 I saw the Defendant and Joe Reynolds have a difficulty in which the Deft gave Reynolds the damned lie and reynolds picked up a rock but did not attempt to use it. The Defendant then tuck a pistol out of a sack and presented at him in a shooting position and told him to drop that rock or or you are a dead man and Reynolds droped the rock. Deft then put up his pistol and walked off they were about 12 feet apart at the time the pistol was presented. This was all done in the eastern Dist. of Carroll County Ark.
(s) J. T. Wilder

Joseph Reynolds being swoor sayes that the Deft gave me the damned lie. I picked up a rock but did not attemp to use it the Deft drew a pistol on me and told me to drop the rock or I was a dead man I doped the rock and he put up his pistol.
Joseph (X his mark) Reynolds

Not sustained, the Carrying of the pistol was submitted before J.P.'s Court and fined and paid.

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J. M. Jones being swoorn said: I am a Justice of the Peace of Polo Township in Carroll County Ark. John Ambros told me that he would give any one fifty dollars that would try him and turn Bill Ambros and turn him loose in the case against him for shooting John Carr. He said he had started to see Carr and he thought he would come and see me. I told him I did not do business that way and he said he did not think there would be any harm in a man finding fifty dollars. This was all in the Eastern District of Carroll County Ark. About the 12 day of May 1887.

(s) J. M Jones.

A true Bill
Bribery

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Missouri State Penitentiary
Registration No.	Name	Age	Nativity	Trade	Height	Hair	Eyes
7804	John Ambrose	28	Kentucky	Clerk	5ft 8-1/2 inches	Brown	Hazel
Complexion	Whiskers Worn	Religion	Habits of Life	Education	Former Imprisonment	Marks and Scars
Fair	Mustache	None	Temp.	R. & W.	None	Single: Parents at Radical, Mo. Heavy eye-brows Little finger right hand off at middle joint. Weight. 145#
Offense	County	Sentence	Term of Court	When Received	Expiration of Sentence		Discharged
Offense	County	Sentence	Term of Court	When Received	Full Time	Three-Fourths Time	Discharged
T. C. Arson	Barry	5 years from March 22nd 1889	March 1889	March 23rd 1889	March 22nd 1894	Dec 22nd 1892	Discharged under 3/4 law Jany 11- 1893

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