Item
[See HO 17/3/14].
Catalogue reference: HO 17/16/46
Date: [1828]
[See HO 17/3/14].
Item
Prisoner name(s): Philip Levy. Prisoner age: 25. Prisoner occupation: Ironmonger...
Catalogue reference: HO 17/26/60
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- HO 17/26/60
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1829
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Description (What the record is about)
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Prisoner name(s): Philip Levy.
Prisoner age: 25.
Prisoner occupation: Ironmonger and furniture broker.
Court and date of trial: Surrey Quarter Sessions held at Newington in June 1829.
Crime: Stealing 3 iron stoves.
Initial sentence: Seven years transportation.
Gaoler's report: 'Character bad. In prison before and a receiver of stolen goods for a long time.'
Annotated (Outcome): Nil.
Petitioner(s): Philip Levy (prisoner) of the newly erected messuages on the Borough Road, [Surrey] undersigned by 17 people.
Grounds for clemency (Petition Details): The prisoner bought the stoves for 16/6d from a tradesman; the prisoner was not given enough time by John Clifford to identify the tradesman; the prisoner did not know that they were stolen property; at the trial no evidence could be advanced that the prisoner had stolen the stoves and two witnesses corroborated his account of the unnamed tradesman; the prisoner is very young in business; the prisoner maintains his widowed mother and sisters by honest industry.
Additional Information: The prisoner is awaiting transportation in Horsemonger Lane, Southwark, Surrey.
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- The National Archives, Kew
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Former department reference (Former identifier given by the originating creator)
- Co 10
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- English
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- Open Document, Open Description
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Home Office: Criminal Petitions, Series I
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