Prisoner name: Charles Harrod (or Charles Henry Harrod). Prisoner age: 37. Prisoner...

Prisoner name: Charles Harrod (or Charles Henry Harrod).

Prisoner age: 37.

Prisoner occupation: Grocer.

Court and date of trial: Old Bailey Sessions, 17 May 1836.

Crime: Receiving stolen goods, being a bag of currants, the property of Messrs Booth & Ingledew, Thames Street, wholesale grocers.

Initial sentence: Seven years transportation.

Gaoler's report: Character not known. Married, two children.

Annotated (Outcome): Not to go abroad till the case is decided. To Penitentiary Infirmary.

Petitioner(s): Charles Henry Harrod, the prisoner. 54 merchants and tradesmen of Cable Street and neighbourhood. Three petitions from 31, 38 and 66 inhabitants of London and Middlesex. Elizabeth Harrod of Cable Street, the prisoner's wife, undersigned by 50 inhabitants of London and Middlesex.

Grounds for clemency (Petition Details): The prisoner has maintained an irreproachable character; he has a wife and two young children, all in delicate health, to support; his own health is poor; the evidence of the principal witness for the prosecution was questionable; the prisoner has conducted himself well in Millbank penitentiary; his elder child has died during his imprisonment.

Other papers: Four letters in support of prisoner from William Mason, 8 Fore Street, City, John Pollard Searle, Tabernacle Row, City Road, James Baker, 1 Dorchester Place, New North Road, Hoxton, surgeon, and James Brown, 68 Chigwell Street. Letter from John Hewitt, chemist and druggist, Well Street, Cable Street, the prisoner's landlord, offering security for his future good conduct. Police report from Superintendent of H or Whitechapel Division, stating that the prisoner had an irreproachable character and that those who informed against him did so out of jealousy.

Additional Information: Prisoner originally a linen draper, but business failed. Lived in Cable Street, Well Close Square, St George, Middlesex. Held in Newgate gaol then ordered to Leviathan hulk.