Prisoner name: Patrick Ryan, (a native of Ireland), aged 29 years (convicted with...

Prisoner name: Patrick Ryan, (a native of Ireland), aged 29 years (convicted with John Dwyer).

Court and Date of Trial: Devon Lent Assizes, Exeter, March 1849.

Crime: Highway robbery.

Initial sentence: 15 years transportation.

Gaoler's Report: 'Character very bad'.

Outcome: 'To Warrior 16 April 1853.

Petitions and letters: Petition letter from [Falkener, Clerk to the Bath City justices] transmitting a certificate of the prisoner's insanity to the Home Office and requesting an order for his removal to the County Asylum; the above certificate from Wilmot Robert Baynton and Hugh Massy (surgeons) undersigned by William Sutcliffe (mayor of Bath and a justice) and Norwich Duff (justice); memoranda of prisoner from the gaol chaplain with an extract of his journal appended; letter from ([John Pike] Keeper of Bath Gaol) transmitting the above memoranda and particulars of the prisoner to the Home Office; petition from Reverend W C Osbon (chaplain to Bath Gaol) undersigned by H Godwin (visiting justice to the gaol); two certificates of the prisoner's recovered sanity from W Charles Hood [Medical superintendent to Bethlem Hospital] and, severally, from William Helps (Apothecary to the hospital); letter from Hood (above) transmitting the certificates to the Home Office; letter from D O'Brien [Director of Prisons] requesting a warrant from the Home Office for removal of the prisoner to Warrior convict hulk; petition from C A Moody; letter from William Clay (governor of Portland Prison) transmitting a journal extract from his chaplain referencing accomplice John Dwyer's deathbed assertion of his [and possibly Ryan's] innocence; letter from the chaplain to Clay in this respect; annotated cover sheet to the third application; grounds for clemency cited that his insanity will return if he is removed back to prison, time served, if pardoned he will go to America.