Item
[See HO 17/3/14].
Catalogue reference: HO 17/16/46
Date: [1828]
[See HO 17/3/14].
Item
Prisoner name: Charlotte Hanlon. Prisoner age: 35 years. Court and date of trial:...
Catalogue reference: HO 17/52/171
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This record is about the Prisoner name: Charlotte Hanlon. Prisoner age: 35 years. Court and date of trial:... dating from 1838 Dec 21 - 1839 Mar 8 in the series Home Office: Criminal Petitions, Series I. It is held at The National Archives, Kew.
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HO 17/52/171
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1838 Dec 21 - 1839 Mar 8
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Prisoner name: Charlotte Hanlon.
Prisoner age: 35 years.
Court and date of trial: Lancaster Quarter Sessions, December 1837.
Crime: Larceny. Stealing a candlestick at Oldham [Lancashire].
Initial sentence: 'Insane'.
Gaoler's report: 'Character bad - conduct irregular. Habits filthy'.
Annotated (Outcome): 'Warrants for removal to Lunatic Asylum for County of Lancaster, and Maintenance, 28 December 1838'. Died.
Papers: Order of Removal with covering letter from [H Dunstan], Assistant Governor, New Bailey Prison, Salford, Lancashire. Home Office note on death of the 'lunatic criminal'. Three letters from R Lomax, Chairman to the Visiting Justices, New Bailey, Salford. Copy testimonies from Sarah Hilton, Matron of New Bailey Prison; Charles Jukes, Assistant to the surgeon, House of Correction Salford; Henry Ollier, Surgeon New Bailey Prison; Mary Reade, nurse New Bailey Prison Hospital; James Booth, Turnkey in New Bailey Prison; Mary Scholfield; Edward Loftus. Letter from Leonard Willan, Clerk to the Visiting Justices of the Lunatic Asylum, County of Lancaster, enclosing copy of witness examinations of Richard Danson, Mary Lambert, [John Hills Probyn], Lawson Whalley and Emily Jane Brandon, taken at the enquiry into the prisoner's death.
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Hz 9
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HO 17
Home Office: Criminal Petitions, Series I
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