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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): Enoch Pennington. Prisoner age: 21. Prisoner occupation: Employed...
Catalogue reference: HO 17/26/4
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This record is about the Prisoner name(s): Enoch Pennington. Prisoner age: 21. Prisoner occupation: Employed... dating from 1828 Apr 4 - 1835 Mar 30 in the series Home Office: Criminal Petitions, Series I. It is held at The National Archives, Kew.
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- 1828 Apr 4 - 1835 Mar 30
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Prisoner name(s): Enoch Pennington.
Prisoner age: 21.
Prisoner occupation: Employed in the warehouse shop of Luke Copeland a grocer of Lane Delph, Stoke on Trent [Staffordshire].
Court and date of trial: Stafford Lent Assizes in March 1828.
Crime: Highway Robbery on the person of Isaac Birks (prosecutor) of Lane Delph, Stoke on Trent, Staffordshire. The prisoner stole two watch seals and one watch key.
Initial sentence: [Death] commuted to transportation for life.
Annotated (Outcome): Nil. In New South Wales.
Petitioner(s): John Pennington (prisoner's brother) Fenton Culvert's constable of Fenton Lane, Lane Delph near Newcastle, Staffordshire.
46 inhabitants of Lane Delph, Stoke, Staffordshire including Isaac Birks (prosecutor).
33 inhabitants of Lane Delph, Staffordshire Potteries including Luke Copeland (prisoner's former employer) and a note from John Copeland of Stoke upon Trent, Staffordshire Potteries.
Grounds for clemency (Petition Details): The prisoner is innocent; the prosecutor has identified two transported convicts as the true culprits of the crime; the prisoner and his relatives are honest people; the prosecution's witness committed perjury at the trial and is well for his bad character; character was irreproachable prior to the offence; the prisoner's good character has been demonstrated in the colonies; the prisoner's former employer always found him to be just and honest.
Other papers: R W Horton magistrate of Richmond Terrace, [Stoke on Trent, Staffordshire] enclosing a petition from his Lane Delph constituents.
Additional Information: The prisoner is living in Patricks Plains, Richmond, New South Wales.
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