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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 Sheldon. Court and Date of Trial: Warwickshire Winter Assizes,...
Catalogue reference: HO 18/251/30
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- HO 18/251/30
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1848
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Prisoner name: William Sheldon.
Court and Date of Trial: Warwickshire Winter Assizes, November 1844.
Crime: Unnatural crime.
Initial sentence: Acquitted, found insane, and detained during H M Pleasure at Coventry Gaol, [Warwickshire].
Outcome: 'Warrant for discharge, 30 August 1849'.
Petitions and letters: Petition from three visiting justices to Coventry Gaol seeking the prisoner's removal to another gaol where he may held in solitary confinement; petition from William Sheldon (the prisoner); medical certificate of sanity but feeble-mindedness, from the surgeon to the gaol; letter from James Stanley (gaoler of Coventry Gaol) transmitting the certificate to the Home Office and reporting on the prisoner's conduct in gaol; grounds for clemency cited as his contrition, time served during H M Pleasure despite never apparently being certified insane.
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- The National Archives, Kew
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- 251/30
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Home Office: Criminal Petitions, Series II
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