Item
[See HO 17/3/14].
Catalogue reference: HO 17/16/46
Date: [1828]
[See HO 17/3/14].
Item
3 individual petitions (two from the prisoner and one from Miss S Gillett) and 1...
Catalogue reference: HO 17/4/100
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- HO 17/4/100
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1835 Mar 25
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3 individual petitions (two from the prisoner and one from Miss S Gillett) and 1 collective petition (35 inhabitants of Westminster including six testimonials) on behalf of William Taylor, draper, convicted with Charles Jones at the Old Bailey on 21 December 1834 for burglary of items to the value of £8 from William Henry Haines. Grounds for clemency: youth (21 years of age), previous good character, distress of parents, father willing to employ him, policeman could not positively identify prisoner as other person with Jones, arrested when Jones' room searched the next day but had only spent night there and not participated in the crime, judge recommended mercy at trial, did not know of Jones' criminal character. Initial sentence: death commuted to life transportation. Gaoler's report: character not known. Annotated: nil. AV 9
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- The National Archives, Kew
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- English
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- Open Document, Open Description
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HO 17
Home Office: Criminal Petitions, Series I
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