Item
[See HO 17/3/14].
Catalogue reference: HO 17/16/46
Date: [1828]
[See HO 17/3/14].
Item
Prisoner name: Charles Dowland. Prisoner age: 31. Court and date of trial: Wiltshire...
Catalogue reference: HO 17/99/69
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This record is about the Prisoner name: Charles Dowland. Prisoner age: 31. Court and date of trial: Wiltshire... dating from 1833 Mar-1833 May in the series Home Office: Criminal Petitions, Series I. It is held at The National Archives, Kew.
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- 1833 Mar-1833 May
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Prisoner name: Charles Dowland.
Prisoner age: 31.
Court and date of trial: Wiltshire Lent Assizes, Salisbury, March 1833.
Crime: Horse stealing.
Initial sentence: Transportation for life,
Gaoler's report: Character etc not known.
Annotated (Outcome): Nil.
Petitioner(s): 57 inhabitants of Shaftesbury and vicinity, Dorset.
Grounds for clemency (Petition Details): Good character; family dependent on his earnings; led astray by others; turned King's Evidence.
Other papers: Three letters from P M Chitty, Shaftesbury, forwarding petition and stating that prisoner confessed and gave evidence against others on the understanding that he would be discharged, the third letter with copy reply stating that no mitigation of sentence to be given.
Additional Information: Prisoner held in Salisbury gaol then ordered to Leviathan hulk, Portsmouth. George Brown, Charles Langridge and Sophia Tanswell committed on evidence of prisoner and acquitted.
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- Sr 3
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Home Office: Criminal Petitions, Series I
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