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Prisoner name: Charles Reilly, aged 17 years. Court and Date of Trial: Aberdeen...

Catalogue reference: HO 18/257/27

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This record is about the Prisoner name: Charles Reilly, aged 17 years. Court and Date of Trial: Aberdeen... dating from 1849 in the series Home Office: Criminal Petitions, Series II. It is held at The National Archives, Kew.

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HO 18/257/27
Date
1849
Description

Prisoner name: Charles Reilly, aged 17 years.

Court and Date of Trial: Aberdeen Circuit Court of Justiciary, 28 September 1848.

Crime: Theft.

Initial sentence: Seven years transportation.

Gaoler's Report: 'Character bad, convicted before'.

Outcome: 'Free pardon, 6 October 1849'.

Petitions and letters: Petition from [Newell Burdett] (Clerk to the Aberdeen County Prison Board); accompanying certificate of the prisoner's ill-health (Scrophulous disease) from Duncan Reid (surgeon to Aberdeen Prison); grounds for clemency cited that his ill-health will endanger his life if confined in prison.

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The National Archives, Kew
Former department reference
257/27
Legal status
Public Record(s)
Closure status
Open Document, Open Description
Record URL
https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C19756037/

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Home Office: Criminal Petitions, Series II

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