Item
[See HO 17/3/14].
Catalogue reference: HO 17/16/46
Date: [1828]
[See HO 17/3/14].
Item
Prisoner name: Richard Hammond. Prisoner age: 26. Court and date of trial: Old Bailey...
Catalogue reference: HO 17/2/146
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1828
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Prisoner name: Richard Hammond.
Prisoner age: 26.
Court and date of trial: Old Bailey April Sessions 1828.
Crime: House breaking - breaking and entering house of Joseph Fernandez de Madrid and stealing property worth £40.
Initial sentence: Death.
Annotated: Considered at Report in Council 7 May 1828.
Petitioner(s): The convict and 18 people mainly of Manchester Square.
Grounds for clemency: Admits he had a fair and just trial; good and industrious character; feels deep contrition and sorrow for the offence; 'overwhelming distress of his honest and industrious mother'.
Additional Information: In Newgate Gaol.
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- The National Archives, Kew
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Former department reference (Former identifier given by the originating creator)
- An 46
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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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