Item
[See HO 17/3/14].
Catalogue reference: HO 17/16/46
Date: [1828]
[See HO 17/3/14].
Item
Prisoner name: Charles White. Prisoner age: 58. Prisoner occupation: Butcher of Eyre...
Catalogue reference: HO 17/2/183
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- HO 17/2/183
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1828 Oct 4 - 1829 July 3
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Description (What the record is about)
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Prisoner name: Charles White.
Prisoner age: 58.
Prisoner occupation: Butcher of Eyre Street Hill, Holborn, Middlesex.
Court and date of trial: Old Bailey Sessions January 1829.
Crime: Stealing seven pigs value £16 12s 6d, property of Sarah Colvin prosecutor, October 1828.
Initial sentence: Seven years transportation.
Gaoler's report: 'Suspected to have been transported before.' 'Married 5 children.'
Annotated: Nil.
Petitioner(s): The convict with eight people and a copy of the promissory note. The convict and five others including the prosecutor. Sarah Colvin, prosecutrix. The convict.
Grounds for clemency: Convict did not participate in the transaction between Sarah Colvin and Samuel Lee who gave her a promissory note to pay for the pigs; has five children whose mother died four years previously; prosecutrix admits she prosecuted the wrong man.
Other papers: Affidavit of Sarah Colvin of Lambeth, Surrey, that she would not have prosecuted Charles White if his partner Samuel Lee had not left London. Affidavit of George Stanbury. A promissory note for £15 12s 6d.
Additional Information: In Newgate Gaol.
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- The National Archives, Kew
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- Ao 33
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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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