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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: John Levy, jeweller. Court and Date of Trial: Middlesex Sessions,...
Catalogue reference: HO 18/235/31
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This record is about the Prisoner name: John Levy, jeweller. Court and Date of Trial: Middlesex Sessions,... dating from 1848 June-1848 July in the series Home Office: Criminal Petitions, Series II. It is held at The National Archives, Kew.
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- HO 18/235/31
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1848 June-1848 July
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Description (What the record is about)
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Prisoner name: John Levy, jeweller.
Court and Date of Trial: Middlesex Sessions, May 1848.
Crime: Keeping a common gaming house in Castle Street, Leicester Square, together with Robert Ashdown.
Initial sentence: Three months imprisonment and £100 fine.
Outcome: Free pardon, 6 July 1848.
Petitions and letters: Petition from the prisoner in House of Correction, Cold Bath Fields, pleading malicious prosecution, inability to pay fine and dependent family, with covering letter from the prisoner's counsel, opining that prosecution 'undertaken for the sole purpose of extorting money.'
Petition from John Bond of 35 Hunter Street, Brunswick Square, the prosecutor, enquiring on what grounds prisoner released.
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Held by (Who holds the record)
- The National Archives, Kew
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- 235/31
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- Public Record(s)
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- Open Document, Open Description
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C18565211/
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HO 18
Home Office: Criminal Petitions, Series II
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