Item
[See HO 17/3/14].
Catalogue reference: HO 17/16/46
Date: [1828]
[See HO 17/3/14].
Item
1 individual petition (Lady Cowper) and 4 testimonies on behalf of Caroline Bernard...
Catalogue reference: HO 17/4/103
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Date (When the record was created)
- [1835]
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1 individual petition (Lady Cowper) and 4 testimonies on behalf of Caroline Bernard alias Madame Ude, a French lady convicted at Surrey Quarter Sessions 9 February 1835 for stealing lace from shopkeepers Thomas Kirkpatrick and Robert Cornell in Kennington or Kensington on 17 January. Evidences supplied by Timothy Lynes, police constable, Thomas Jones and W Chambers, including testimonies from Brixton House of Correction with the official summary of case details. There are 2 items in French from the prisoner and a summary of case details from the Chairman of Quarter Sessions. Grounds for clemency: did not understand English legal system, previous employers all found her honest, few character witnesses at trial because too ashamed to tell people, father was a French general, already served 2 months of sentence. Initial sentence: 6 months imprisonment. Annotated: pardon she may be discharged immediately. AV 12
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- English
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HO 17
Home Office: Criminal Petitions, Series I
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