Item
[See HO 17/3/14].
Catalogue reference: HO 17/16/46
Date: [1828]
[See HO 17/3/14].
Item
Prisoner name: John Hart. Prisoner age: 17. Court and date of trial: Somerset Lent...
Catalogue reference: HO 17/61/34
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This record is about the Prisoner name: John Hart. Prisoner age: 17. Court and date of trial: Somerset Lent... dating from 1836 Apr 23 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)
- 1836 Apr 23
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Prisoner name: John Hart.
Prisoner age: 17.
Court and date of trial: Somerset Lent Assizes, Taunton, 4 April 1836.
Crime: Stealing a watch.
Initial sentence: Death, commuted to transportation for life.
Gaoler's report: Character indifferent.
Annotated (Outcome): Nil.
Petitioner(s): Jane Hart, widow of parish of St Philip and Jacob, Bristol, the prisoner's mother, undersigned by 13 inhabitants of Bristol and Joseph Wright Cummins Casson, the prisoner's former employer, testifying to his previous good character.
Grounds for clemency (Petition Details): The prisoner was drawn into crime by bad company; he did not know the watch he pawned was stolen; he is of previous good character.
Additional Information: Prisoner ordered to York hulk.
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- The National Archives, Kew
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Former department reference (Former identifier given by the originating creator)
- KW34
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- English
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Home Office: Criminal Petitions, Series I
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