Item
[See HO 17/3/14].
Catalogue reference: HO 17/16/46
Date: [1828]
[See HO 17/3/14].
Item
Prisoner name: John Whiffin. Court and date of trial: Surrey Winter Assizes held...
Catalogue reference: HO 17/112/189
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Date (When the record was created)
- [1828]
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Prisoner name: John Whiffin.
Court and date of trial: Surrey Winter Assizes held at Kingston upon Thames December 1827.
Crime: Stealing a looking glass from the property of Joseph Hart of St Saviour's Southwark [London].
Initial sentence: Death commuted to transportation for life.
Annotated (Outcome): Prays for wife to go with him.
Petitioner(s): Prisoner.
Grounds for clemency (Petition Details): Expects to be banished from the country; asks that his wife be allowed to accompany him or she will be destitute; promises to act honestly in the future and to retrieve his lost character.
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Held by (Who holds the record)
- The National Archives, Kew
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Former department reference (Former identifier given by the originating creator)
- Wm 39
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- Open Document, Open Description
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HO 17
Home Office: Criminal Petitions, Series I
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