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Letter from [James Sedgley] with regard to Benjamin Dawson, labourer convicted at...

Catalogue reference: HO 17/4/68

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This record is about the Letter from [James Sedgley] with regard to Benjamin Dawson, labourer convicted at... dating from 1834 Apr 12 in the series Home Office: Criminal Petitions, Series I. It is held at The National Archives, Kew.

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HO 17/4/68
Date
1834 Apr 12
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Letter from [James Sedgley] with regard to Benjamin Dawson, labourer convicted at the Norfolk Lent Assizes at Norwich in March 1834 for highway robbery. Letter states sentence should not have been commuted to 1 year's imprisonment, far too lenient, no deterrent, should have been life transportation. Annotated: nil. AT 16

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Language
English
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