Item
[See HO 17/3/14].
Catalogue reference: HO 17/16/46
Date: [1828]
[See HO 17/3/14].
Item
Prisoner name(s): Samuel Needs (Neads). Prisoner age: 17. Court and date of trial:...
Catalogue reference: HO 17/30/112
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This record is about the Prisoner name(s): Samuel Needs (Neads). Prisoner age: 17. Court and date of trial:... dating from 1825 Aug - 1826 Jan in the series Home Office: Criminal Petitions, Series I. It is held at The National Archives, Kew.
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- HO 17/30/112
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1825 Aug - 1826 Jan
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Description (What the record is about)
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Prisoner name(s): Samuel Needs (Neads).
Prisoner age: 17.
Court and date of trial: Gloucestershire Summer Assizes 1825.
Crime: Highway robbery - assaulting and robbing Mr Abraham Golding.
Initial sentence: Death commuted to transportation for life.
Annotated (Outcome): 'Let the law take its course'; nil.
Petitioner(s): Thomas Neads, father and the convict and 14 people including the prosecutor;
2 petitions from Thomas Neads, father of convict.
Grounds for clemency (Petition Details): Prisoner was in bad company when robbery was committed; father has a wife and seven children and has always lived respectably; father promises son will behave in future; father asks for him to be kept in the country; first offence.
Other papers: A letter from R Hart Davis supporting the petition.
Additional Information: Francis Cains alias Bush tried with Neads.
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Held by (Who holds the record)
- The National Archives, Kew
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Former department reference (Former identifier given by the originating creator)
- Dl 29
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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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