Item
[See HO 17/3/14].
Catalogue reference: HO 17/16/46
Date: [1828]
[See HO 17/3/14].
Item
Prisoner name(s): James Cassady. Prisoner occupation: Weaver. Court and date...
Catalogue reference: HO 17/26/53
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This record is about the Prisoner name(s): James Cassady. Prisoner occupation: Weaver. Court and date... dating from 1829 June 22 in the series Home Office: Criminal Petitions, Series I. It is held at The National Archives, Kew.
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- HO 17/26/53
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1829 June 22
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Prisoner name(s): James Cassady.
Prisoner occupation: Weaver.
Court and date of trial: Committed for trial at the next Assizes for the County of Lancaster.
Crime: Rescuing a prisoner, Barney Lennon, from the custody of two excise officers named James Turtle and James Boyce on the 16 October 1828.
Initial sentence: [Not stated].
Annotated (Outcome): Nil.
Petitioner(s): Katherine Cassady (prisoner's wife) of Leigh Street East, Prussia Street, Manchester, [Lancashire] undersigned by 22 people, and a certificate from Joseph Collinson, a surgeon of 463 Oldham Road.
Grounds for clemency (Petition Details): Respectable persons can vouch for the improbability of the excise officers' testimonies; nine petitioners were witnesses to the whole affray and 13 petitioners confirm that the prisoner is an honest, sober and well disposed young man; the petitioner cannot afford the witnesses' expenses nor an attorney to transmit their affidavits to the Court; the petitioner and her five small children currently destitute.
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- The National Archives, Kew
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- Co 3
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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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