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[See HO 17/3/14].
Catalogue reference: HO 17/16/46
Date: [1828]
[See HO 17/3/14].
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Catalogue reference: HO 17/99/126
This record is about the Prisoner name: Nicholas Goodhew, Ann Green, Robert Slocomb (or Robert Slocombe) and... dating from 1834 Jan-1838 Aug in the series Home Office: Criminal Petitions, Series I. It is held at The National Archives, Kew.
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Prisoner name: Nicholas Goodhew, Ann Green, Robert Slocomb (or Robert Slocombe) and Harriet Walless (or Harriet Wallis).
Prisoner age: Goodhew aged 31, Green aged 18, Slocomb aged 26, Walless aged 28.
Prisoner occupation: Goodhew a waterman.
Court and date of trial: Kent Winter Assizes, Maidstone, December 1833.
Crime: Highway robbery at Dartford, Kent, and stealing a silver watch and £1 17s in money from William Robinson.
Initial sentence: [Death], commuted to transportation for life.
Gaoler's report: Goodhew not known, Slocomb and Green represented good, Walless prostitute and kept a house of ill fame.
Annotated (Outcome): Nil.
Petitioner(s): 44 inhabitants of Isleworth, Middlesex.
The prisoner, Nicholas Goodhew, undersigned by Thomas Robinson, the prosecutor, and eight inhabitants of Dartford and district, Kent, including a former employer.
Two petitions from John Slocombe and Ann his wife, of Isleworth, the prisoner Slocombe's parents, the undersigned by 52 inhabitants of Isleworth.
Grounds for clemency (Petition Details): First offence; respectable family (Slocombe); good character (Goodhew and Slocombe); intoxicated (Slocombe).
Other papers: Letter from solicitors forwarding petition from prisoner Goodhew.
Letter from John and Mary [sic] Slocombe setting out facts of case, undersigned by three inhabitants of Isleworth, willing to testify to the prisoner Slocombe's good character.
Letter from W L Pearce, High Constable of Dartford, forwarding papers [missing] in favour of prisoner Walless, in Van Diemen's Land.
Additional Information: Walless from Dartford. Prisoners held in Maidstone gaol. Later transported.
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