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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 Dix, aged 26 years. Court and Date of Trial: Somerset Quarter...
Catalogue reference: HO 18/257/14
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1849
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Prisoner name: William Dix, aged 26 years.
Court and Date of Trial: Somerset Quarter Sessions, Wells, October 1848.
Crime: Sheepstealing.
Initial sentence: Seven years transportation.
Gaoler's Report: 'Supposed first offence'.
Outcome: 'Free pardon, 6 November 1849'. Held in Taunton Prison [Somerset].
Petitions and letters: Petition of recommendation from Robert Meade King and William J Maclean (visiting justices to Wilton prison, [Taunton, Somerset]); medical certificate of lung disease from [Henry Lindon] (surgeon to the prison); certificate of good conduct from James Gane (prison governor) also certifying that this is the prisoner's first conviction; grounds for clemency cited as extreme ill-health such that he will die unless released.
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- 257/14
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Home Office: Criminal Petitions, Series II
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