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Prisoner name: Robert Hill, aged 13, and John Hulcombe, aged 17. Court and Date...
Catalogue reference: HO 18/41/32
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HO 18/41/32
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1841
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Prisoner name: Robert Hill, aged 13, and John Hulcombe, aged 17.
Court and Date of Trial: Exeter City Sessions, January 1841.
Crime: Larceny.
Initial sentence: 7 years transportation.
Gaoler's Report: Hulcombe: not naturally depraved but easily led into vice. Imprisoned before.
Hill: led astray by evil advisors.
Outcome: Hill to Parkhurst; Hulcombe to the penitentiary.
Petitions and letters: The Recorder of Exeter says that Hill was convicted of stealing some clothes from a pawn shop but there is reason to believe that he was induced to do this by a man who had fled from justice. He recommends Parkhurst or, if this is not possible, 5 weeks imprisonment. Hulcombe was convicted of stealing a handkerchief from a man in a coach, having lately become connected to a gang of pickpockets. He is recommended for the Penitentiary, with the support of the chaplain, and in the hope that he can be rehabilitated.
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41/32
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Home Office: Criminal Petitions, Series II
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