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Papers HO 18/225/24.
Catalogue reference: HO 18/236/45
Date: [1848-1849]
Papers HO 18/225/24.
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Prisoner name: William Leake (or William Leeke), aged 30, cab driver. Court and...
Catalogue reference: HO 18/235/27
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This record is about the Prisoner name: William Leake (or William Leeke), aged 30, cab driver. Court and... dating from 1848 Mar-1850 Apr in the series Home Office: Criminal Petitions, Series II. It is held at The National Archives, Kew.
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- 1848 Mar-1850 Apr
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Prisoner name: William Leake (or William Leeke), aged 30, cab driver.
Court and Date of Trial: Manchester Borough Sessions, February 1848.
Crime: Larceny.
Initial sentence: Seven years transportation.
Gaoler's Report: Transported before.
Outcome: Free pardon, 25 April 1850.
Petitions and letters: Medical certificate from New Bailey prison, Salford, confirming prisoner's ill health (bronchitis), with covering letter.
Two petitions from the prisoner in New Bailey prison, pleading unemployment, destitute family on parish relief, ill health and good conduct in prison, undersigned by visiting justices recommending pardon, with medical certificate confirming asthma and scrofula, certificate from governor confirming good conduct, copy medical certificate from Millbank prison confirming that prisoner unfit to be received and covering letter.
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Home Office: Criminal Petitions, Series II
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