Item
[See HO 17/3/14].
Catalogue reference: HO 17/16/46
Date: [1828]
[See HO 17/3/14].
Item
Prisoner name(s): Ann Chapman. Court and date of trial: Old Bailey June sessions...
Catalogue reference: HO 17/26/83
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This record is about the Prisoner name(s): Ann Chapman. Court and date of trial: Old Bailey June sessions... dating from 1829 July 14 - 1829 July 20 in the series Home Office: Criminal Petitions, Series I. It is held at The National Archives, Kew.
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- HO 17/26/83
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1829 July 14 - 1829 July 20
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Description (What the record is about)
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Prisoner name(s): Ann Chapman.
Court and date of trial: Old Bailey June sessions in 1829.
Crime: Murder: the prisoner attempted to strangle her recently born child with a piece of ribbon.
Initial sentence: Death.
Annotated (Outcome): 'I do not feel myself warranted in recommending the Prisoner for a mitigation of the sentence of the Law. William Peel.'
Petitioner(s): Two petitions from George Coles.
Grounds for clemency (Petition Details): The ribbon was tied so loosely that a person on the road could hear the child crying in the field; Lord Lansdowne's Act has changed the law; the jury recommended mercy; the child's father ascribes the crime to his treatment of the prisoner; the child's father threatened to desert her; the prisoner had no friends or neighbours to assist her; the prisoner's mind was temporarily unbalanced.
Other papers: A note stating the father blamed his conduct for her behaviour.
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- The National Archives, Kew
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Former department reference (Former identifier given by the originating creator)
- Co 33
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- Public Record(s)
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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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