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[See HO 17/3/14].
Catalogue reference: HO 17/16/46
Date: [1828]
[See HO 17/3/14].
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Prisoner name(s): John Stacey ( or John Stacy). Prisoner age: 16. Prisoner...
Catalogue reference: HO 17/16/57
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This record is about the Prisoner name(s): John Stacey ( or John Stacy). Prisoner age: 16. Prisoner... dating from 1829 May 22 - 1829 July 28 in the series Home Office: Criminal Petitions, Series I. It is held at The National Archives, Kew.
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- HO 17/16/57
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1829 May 22 - 1829 July 28
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Prisoner name(s): John Stacey ( or John Stacy).
Prisoner age: 16.
Prisoner occupation: Apprentice letter-press printer.
Court and date of trial: Westminster Sessions [Middlesex] September 1828.
Crime: Assault (on an infant) with intent to ravish, namely a girl named Fynes (or Fines).
Initial sentence: 18 months imprisonment.
Annotated (Outcome): 'Nil June 2 1829' [and 5 Aug 1829].
Petitioner(s): Edward Stacey and Frances Stacey (parents), two applications. [Lewis Lovat], Henry Warren and George Harvey (newspaper employees known to the convict's father).
Grounds for clemency (Petition Details): His youth; his health; he has already served eight months of the sentence although innocent of the crime as the girl had [venereal] disease but the convict did not and therefore he could not have infected her; the false charge was laid by the girl's parents to hurt the feelings of the convict's parents rather than to serve the ends of justice; imprisonment will efface from the convict's memory all knowledge of his trade due to lack of use.
Other papers: Medical certificate by Henry Wakefield, Surgeon to the House of Correction, where the convict's health has suffered considerably from his imprisonment.
Additional Information: Held in Cold Bath Fields House of Correction.
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- The National Archives, Kew
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- Bo 7
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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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