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Item (folio 144) extracted from HO 47/14/23
Catalogue reference: HO 47/14/23/1
Date: 1792
Item (folio 144) extracted from HO 47/14/23
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Report of Francis Const, on 1 individual petition (prisoner, including a character...
Catalogue reference: HO 47/70/4
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1826 Oct 23
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Report of Francis Const, on 1 individual petition (prisoner, including a character reference for the prisoner signed by 96 inhabitants of Uxbridge, Middlesex) on behalf of John Taft, ostler, convicted at the adjourned Middlesex Sessions of an assault on 18 August 1825 on Charlotte Gunnell, the servant of Edward Ward of Iver, Buckinghamshire. Taft is accused of throwing her over cowley bridge, on a branch of the river colne, in the parish of Hillingdon, Middlesex. Evidences supplied by Richard Green, innkeeper of the King's Arms Inn, Uxbridge, employer of prisoner; Elizabeth Bull, wife of Richard Bull, labourer of Cowley; Richard Bull, labourer; William Rayner, surgeon and apothecary; Harry Barnes, apprentice to William Rayner and his father, Matthew Rayner. Grounds for clemency: the prisoner is a victim of perjury; he was unable to give evidence of his innocence as the prosecutrix was the only witness against him. Sentence: 1 years imprisonment and to be kept at hard labour in the House of Correction Cold Bath Fields. Recommendation: speaks against mercy. Folios 119-130.
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Home Office: Judges' Reports on Criminals
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