Item
[See HO 17/3/14].
Catalogue reference: HO 17/16/46
Date: [1828]
[See HO 17/3/14].
Item
Prisoner name(s): George Waddington. Prisoner age: 36. Court and date of trial:...
Catalogue reference: HO 17/26/46
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1828 Apr 18
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Prisoner name(s): George Waddington.
Prisoner age: 36.
Court and date of trial: Lancaster Lent Assizes 1828.
Crime: Returning from transportation.
Initial sentence: [Death] commuted to transportation for life.
Gaoler's report: '3rd conviction. Character very bad.'
Annotated (Outcome): Nil.
Petitioner(s): George Waddington (prisoner) of Clitheroe, Lancashire.
Grounds for clemency (Petition Details): The prisoner's sentence should be mitigated to his original punishment on the recommendation of Lord Judge Bailey; the prisoner will never break the law again; the prisoner is very weak after 18 months' imprisonment; the prisoner's life went to rack and ruin; all the prisoner's work was only part finished so his employers paid his wife whatever they pleased; the prisoner absconded in order to see his poor old father and mother.
Additional Information: In Lancaster Castle.
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- The National Archives, Kew
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- Cn 46
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- English
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HO 17
Home Office: Criminal Petitions, Series I
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