Item
[See HO 17/3/14].
Catalogue reference: HO 17/16/46
Date: [1828]
[See HO 17/3/14].
Item
Prisoner name: John Jones alias William Bryan. Prisoner age: 42. Court and date...
Catalogue reference: HO 17/117/140
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1826
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Prisoner name: John Jones alias William Bryan.
Prisoner age: 42.
Court and date of trial: Old Bailey October Sessions 1826.
Crime: Returning from transportation.
Initial sentence: Death commuted to transportation for life.
Annotated (Outcome): Considered at Report in Council 16 December 1826. To the hulks.
Petitioner(s): Three petitions from the prisoner, one undersigned with 10 names, one with 13 names and one with 16 names.
Grounds for clemency (Petition Details): Induced to commit the original crime through distress; family dependants; regrets escaping from ship; contrite; served in the Navy for 6 years.
Additional Information: Prisoner was convicted of theft of small amount of bacon at Old Bailey in February 1826 and sentenced to 7 Years transportation; not technically transported but escaped from the Leviathan hulk at Portsmouth.
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Held by (Who holds the record)
- The National Archives, Kew
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- Xl 39
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HO 17
Home Office: Criminal Petitions, Series I
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