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[See HO 17/3/14].
Catalogue reference: HO 17/16/46
Date: [1828]
[See HO 17/3/14].
Item
Prisoner name(s): Robert Walker. Prisoner occupation: Tin plate worker. Court...
Catalogue reference: HO 17/26/47
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This record is about the Prisoner name(s): Robert Walker. Prisoner occupation: Tin plate worker. Court... dating from 1827 Dec 18 - 1828 May 11 in the series Home Office: Criminal Petitions, Series I. It is held at The National Archives, Kew.
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1827 Dec 18 - 1828 May 11
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Prisoner name(s): Robert Walker.
Prisoner occupation: Tin plate worker.
Court and date of trial: Beverley General Quarter Sessions [East Riding of Yorkshire] on 23 April 1827.
Crime: Receiving stolen goods.
Initial sentence: Two years imprisonment and hard labour.
Annotated (Outcome): At the end of one year to be recommended and pardoned if good. Remission prepared 9 April 1828.
Petitioner(s): Robert Walker (prisoner); 77 inhabitants of Kingston upon Hull, [East Riding of Yorkshire].
Grounds for clemency (Petition Details): The prisoner is innocent and the true culprit of the crime is Peter Wilson; the prisoner had no idea that the goods were stolen; good character for honesty and integrity; respectable family; wife and three children dependent on him; has already served time in prison; Peter Wilson admitted that he believed the prisoner had no knowledge or suspicion that the goods were stolen.
Other papers: D Sykes of Raywell, [East Riding of Yorkshire] transferring the petition and certificate; William Hildyard, the Chaplain of the House of Correction in East Riding confirming Walker's good conduct in prison; S Shepherd Governor of the House of Correction, Beverley, East Riding of Yorkshire confirming Walker's good conduct; William Hildyard considers the prisoner a fit object for clemency; a letter from Richard Bethell, Chairman of the East Riding Quarter Sessions asking for the reasons for the recommendation for pardon by Mr Peel.
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Home Office: Criminal Petitions, Series I
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