Item
[See HO 17/3/14].
Catalogue reference: HO 17/16/46
Date: [1828]
[See HO 17/3/14].
Item
Prisoner name: Cornelius Wood. Court and date of trial: Old Bailey January Sessions...
Catalogue reference: HO 17/102/74
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- HO 17/102/74
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1825
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Description (What the record is about)
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Prisoner name: Cornelius Wood.
Court and date of trial: Old Bailey January Sessions 1825.
Crime: Rape of Mary Eyres.
Initial sentence: Death.
Annotated (Outcome): Considered at Report in Council 16 February 1825.
Nil.
Petitioner(s): Two petitions. First petition from Cornelius Wood, the prisoner. Second petition from Cornelius Wood, the prisoner.
Grounds for clemency (Petition Details): Innocent, youth, prosecutrix of immoral character.
Other papers: Letter from Newman Knowlys forwarding an anonymous letter.
Anonymous letter alleging that Mary Eyres is a strumpet and her testimony is not to be believed.
Letter from David Peden, a grocer, who served the prisoner on the night of the crime. His wife observed the prosecutrix behaving indecorously. Neither of them were called as witnesses.
Second anonymous letter re-iterating the testimony of the prosecutrix is not to be believed.
Letter from Newman Knowlys forwarding evidence from the trial of Cornelius Wood and depositions [not in item].
Anonymous letter apologising for not sending his application to Mr Peel but asking for humane consideration of Cornelius Wood.
Additional Information: In Newgate Gaol.
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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)
- Tk 25
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- Public Record(s)
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- Open Document, Open Description
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HO 17
Home Office: Criminal Petitions, Series I
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