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[See HO 17/3/14].
Catalogue reference: HO 17/16/46
Date: [1828]
[See HO 17/3/14].
Item
Prisoner name: Peter Gibson. Prisoner occupation: Carpenter. Court and date of...
Catalogue reference: HO 17/102/53
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This record is about the Prisoner name: Peter Gibson. Prisoner occupation: Carpenter. Court and date of... dating from 1825 Feb 11-1825 May 23 in the series Home Office: Criminal Petitions, Series I. It is held at The National Archives, Kew.
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- 1825 Feb 11-1825 May 23
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Prisoner name: Peter Gibson.
Prisoner occupation: Carpenter.
Court and date of trial: Kent Winter Assizes 1825.
Crime: Extorting money from John Edwards.
Initial sentence: Imprisonment for one year.
Annotated (Outcome): Refused.
Petitioner(s): Peter Gibson the prisoner, and undersigned by 20 others. Petition includes certificate of good conduct by Thomas Agar, Keeper of the gaol, and John Winter, the Chaplain of the gaol.
Grounds for clemency (Petition Details): Family dependent on his wages, wife ill, good character, good conduct in prison, the prosecutor had tried to engage in an unnatural act with the prisoner.
Other papers: Letter from G T Goodenough of Shoreham requesting a remission of sentence for Peter Gibson. States that the crime was to conduct a sham trial against the prosecutor who had tried to engage in an unnatural act whilst sharing a bed in a lodging house.
Letter from Reverend Benjamin Sandford of Farningham requesting remittance of the sentence, stating that the prisoner had transgressed through compassion, ignorance and inadvertence.
Additional Information: In Maidstone Gaol.
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Home Office: Criminal Petitions, Series I
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