Item
[See HO 17/3/14].
Catalogue reference: HO 17/16/46
Date: [1828]
[See HO 17/3/14].
Item
Prisoner name: John Watkins Price (or John Watkin Price). Prisoner age: 29 years....
Catalogue reference: HO 17/27/130
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1833
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Prisoner name: John Watkins Price (or John Watkin Price).
Prisoner age: 29 years.
Court and date of trial: Monmouthshire Lent Assizes, Monmouth, 26 March 1833.
Crime: Horse stealing, namely one horse from Daniel Brown.
Initial sentence: Transportation for life.
Gaoler's report: 'Indifferent character'.
Annotated (Outcome): 'On board Justitia'[convict hulk]. 'Nil'.
Petitioner(s): Daniel Brown prosecutor undersigned by 34 inhabitants of the borough of Merthyr Tydfil [Glamorgan] known to the convict.
Grounds for clemency (Petition Details): He and his family are of an imbecilic nature; he answered questions with childish simplicity; previous good character; no aggravating features to the crime; the prosecutor was persuaded to charge him against his will.
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- The National Archives, Kew
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- Cs 14
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Home Office: Criminal Petitions, Series I
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