Item
[See HO 17/3/14].
Catalogue reference: HO 17/16/46
Date: [1828]
[See HO 17/3/14].
Item
Prisoner name: Joseph Senior, aged 23, and William Brummitt, aged 32. Prisoner occupation:...
Catalogue reference: HO 17/99/3
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Date (When the record was created)
- [1831 Apr]-1838 Nov
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Prisoner name: Joseph Senior, aged 23, and William Brummitt, aged 32.
Prisoner occupation: Senior a gardener, Brummitt a weaver.
Court and date of trial: York Lent Assizes, March 1831.
Crime: Highway robbery of Saul Jessop and Joshua Hirst.
Initial sentence: Death, commuted to transportation for life.
Annotated (Outcome): Nil.
Petitioner(s): 62 merchants, manufacturers and inhabitants of Lepton and neighbourhood, West Riding of Yorkshire.
William Archer JP of Brickenden, Van Diemen's Land, the master of prisoner Senior.
Grounds for clemency (Petition Details): Good characters; first offence; mistaken identity (Senior); good conduct in Van Diemen's Land (Senior).
Other papers: Letter from Joseph Walker of Lascelles Hall near Huddersfield, forwarding affidavits.
Affidavit of William Butheroyde of Almondbury, Yorkshire, weaver, witness to the robbery.
Voluntary information of Charles Jessop of Lepton, joiner, the nephew of Saul Jessop, deceased, the prosecutor.
Additional Information: Prisoners from Lepton. Senior transported in 1832.
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Home Office: Criminal Petitions, Series I
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