Item
[See HO 17/3/14].
Catalogue reference: HO 17/16/46
Date: [1828]
[See HO 17/3/14].
Item
Prisoner name: Charles Goodwin. Prisoner occupation: Servant. Court and date of trial:...
Catalogue reference: HO 17/99/127
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- 1834 Jan-1841 Dec
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Prisoner name: Charles Goodwin.
Prisoner occupation: Servant.
Court and date of trial: Old Bailey Sessions, January 1834.
Crime: Stealing two Bank of England notes, value £20 and £10, the property of John Robert Daniel Tyssen of Warwick Road, Upper Clapton, Middlesex, esquire, the son of William Tyssen of Maidstone, Kent, the prisoner's employer.
Initial sentence: Transportation for life.
Gaoler's report: Not known. Married, one child.
Annotated (Outcome): Nil.
Petitioner(s): The prisoner, undersigned by John Robert Daniel Tyssen, the prosecutor.
Two petitions from John Goodwin of Goodnestone, Wingham, Kent, the prisoner's father.
Grounds for clemency (Petition Details): Good character; first offence; prosecutor recommends mercy; sentence severe for crime; respectable family; youth; good conduct in Van Diemen's Land.
Other papers: Letter from John Plumptre MP accompanying petition.
Four letters from John Robert Daniel Tyssen, the prosecutor, Elizabeth Ann Farbrace of Dover, and Herbert Gardner of Clarence Lawn, Dover, the prisoner's former employers, and John Goodwin, all requesting mitigation of sentence.
Letter from George Henry Teale Farbrace, rector of Eythorne, Kent, in favour of mitigation.
Additional Information: Prisoner held in Newgate gaol. Transported to Hobart Town and in service as footman to John Gregory, Treasurer of Van Diemen's Land.
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Home Office: Criminal Petitions, Series I
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