Item
[See HO 17/3/14].
Catalogue reference: HO 17/16/46
Date: [1828]
[See HO 17/3/14].
Item
Prisoner name: Alexander John Spence. Court and date of trial: Dover General Sessions...
Catalogue reference: HO 17/117/16
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- HO 17/117/16
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1828
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Description (What the record is about)
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Prisoner name: Alexander John Spence.
Court and date of trial: Dover General Sessions of the Peace.
Crime: Maliciously shooting at Lieutenant Graham under Lord Ellenborough's Act.
Initial sentence: Death.
Annotated (Outcome): Nil.
Petitioner(s): Mr Delahunt; 12 members of the petty jury; Philip Graham; William Congreve; three petitions from Colonel Ford.
Grounds for clemency (Petition Details): Youth; gun fired during struggle; jury took three hours to agree verdict; recommended prisoner to mercy; father was in the Engineers; distressed parents and siblings.
Other papers: Memorandum on circumstances of the case by Robert Peel; depositions by Robert Harper, Joseph Dodd, Henry Middleton, Elizabeth Lambert, Ambrose Cullen, Allen Richardson, Thomas Long, John Hudson Smithett and Ann Brazier; depositions by Philip Graham, John Marsh and Thomas Fraser with particulars of indictments attached; two letters from Henry Latham Mayor of Dover with affidavits of William Mate, John Marsh, Joseph Dodd and Elizabeth Lambert and two letters from Thomas Pain attached; Report of the trial and two letters from William Kennet Recorder of Dover; letter from William Congreve; notes of evidence given at trial by Philip Graham, Thomas Fraser; Samuel Cornish Brandon; William Bethel.
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Held by (Who holds the record)
- The National Archives, Kew
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- Xh 15
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HO 17
Home Office: Criminal Petitions, Series I
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