Item
[See HO 17/3/14].
Catalogue reference: HO 17/16/46
Date: [1828]
[See HO 17/3/14].
Item
Prisoner name: Samuel Young. Prisoner age: 15 years. Court and date of trial:...
Catalogue reference: HO 17/27/150
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This record is about the Prisoner name: Samuel Young. Prisoner age: 15 years. Court and date of trial:... dating from 1833 Apr 12 - 1833 May 11 in the series Home Office: Criminal Petitions, Series I. It is held at The National Archives, Kew.
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- HO 17/27/150
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1833 Apr 12 - 1833 May 11
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Prisoner name: Samuel Young.
Prisoner age: 15 years.
Court and date of trial: Somerset Lent Assizes, Taunton, March 1833.
Crime: Rape, of a child of 'tender years'.
Initial sentence: Death recorded and commuted to transportation for life.
Gaoler's report: 'Character indifferent'.
Annotated (Outcome): 'Ordered to the York'[convict hulk]; 'nil'.
Petitioner(s): Henry Webb Shillibeer ([solicitor] on behalf of the convict's father), two applications; 34 inhabitants of [Taunton] including three parish officers with a second application by 24 of those inhabitants.
Grounds for clemency (Petition Details): His age; previous unimpeachable character; his distressed parents; his total ignorance of the penalty for the crime; it was probably carried out in the folklore belief that a diseased person having connexion with a very young person will eradicate that disease; seduced by the girl; crime not satisfactorily proved.
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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)
- Cs 34
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Home Office: Criminal Petitions, Series I
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