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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: Sarah Stevens. Court and Date of Trial: Sussex Lent Assizes, Lewes,...
Catalogue reference: HO 18/251/29
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- HO 18/251/29
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1848
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Prisoner name: Sarah Stevens.
Court and Date of Trial: Sussex Lent Assizes, Lewes, March 1848.
Crime: Larceny by servant, from Captain Mark Gambier.
Initial sentence: 12 months imprisonment. Held in Petworth House of Correction [Sussex].
Outcome: 'Free pardon 27 November 1848'.
Petitions and letters: Petition from Sarah Stevens (the prisoner) undersigned by 11 inhabitants of Newhaven [Sussex] and by W A Cowell and Margaret Cowell (former employers); petition from Captain Mark Gambier (prosecutor); petition from E Oughton (known to the prisoner); petition of recommendation from two visiting justices to the House of Correction; grounds for clemency cited as good conduct in gaol, her mother's ill-health, time served, her contrition, she has had some property left to her whilst in gaol.
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- The National Archives, Kew
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- 251/29
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HO 18
Home Office: Criminal Petitions, Series II
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