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[See HO 17/3/14].
Catalogue reference: HO 17/16/46
Date: [1828]
[See HO 17/3/14].
Item
Prisoner name: Samuel Norburn and Ebenezer Wright. Prisoner occupation: Both apprentices....
Catalogue reference: HO 17/99/102
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- 1833 Mar
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Prisoner name: Samuel Norburn and Ebenezer Wright.
Prisoner occupation: Both apprentices.
Court and date of trial: York Lent Assizes, March 1833.
Crime: Arson of a straw stack and a stack of hay, the property of John Oxley of Rotherham, Yorkshire, solicitor.
Initial sentence: Death.
Annotated (Outcome): Norburn, reprieved. Wright, to be executed 30 March.
Petitioner(s): 230 inhabitants of Rotherham, including John Oxley, the prosecutor.
William Markham Oddie, a debtor in York Castle prison.
Grounds for clemency (Petition Details): Youth; respectable families; prosecutor recommends mercy.
Other papers: Two letters from Thomas Badger of Rotherham and Lord Morpeth of Grosvenor Place forwarding the petition.
Additional Information: Prisoners from Rotherham.
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- Sr 36
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Home Office: Criminal Petitions, Series I
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