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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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Prisoner name: Richard Wilkins Hunt. Prisoner age: 14. Prisoner occupation: Cashier...
Catalogue reference: HO 17/82/130
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HO 17/82/130
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1830
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Prisoner name: Richard Wilkins Hunt.
Prisoner age: 14.
Prisoner occupation: Cashier in a drapers firm.
Court and date of trial: Surrey Adjourned Quarter Sessions, Newington March 1830.
Crime: Embezzling money, the property of his Master, Joseph Harvey.
Initial sentence: Transportation for 14 years.
Gaoler's report: Character, connections etc good.
Annotated (Outcome): Ordered to Penitentiary 31 March 1830.
Petitioner(s): Thomas and Richard Wilkins of Kingstead, Northants, uncles of the prisoner.
Grounds for clemency (Petition Details): After retiring from business as a Wholesale Draper in April 1829, the petitioner, Richard Wilkins, apprenticed the prisoner, Richard Wilkins Hunt, an orphan boy without parents who, having been put in work where he was made responsible for significant sums of money, came under the influence of a man named Hedge, a porter who induced the boy to steal money to which he had easy access, the prosecutor having failed to make any normal arrangements to protect the money. Hedge is now serving a term of imprisonment.
Other papers: Letter from Thomas Wilkins to Mr Steel saying that Richard still maintains his innocence and if he did rob his master, it is a mystery what he did with the money.
Letter from [J Pensam] to J H Capper recommending Mr Steel.
Letter from [J Scriven] that he tried both Richard Wilkins Hunt and Wedd [Hedge] but at the time could find no connection between them although he has since come to believe that Hunt was Wedd's victim.
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PO 36
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HO 17
Home Office: Criminal Petitions, Series I
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