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Prisoner name: Henry Sellick. Court and Date of Trial: Bow Street Police Office,...

Catalogue reference: HO 18/257/29

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HO 18/257/29
Date
1849
Description

Prisoner name: Henry Sellick.

Court and Date of Trial: Bow Street Police Office, City of Westminster, 6 September 1849.

Crime: Misconduct as an omnibus conductor [by assault upon a Mrs May].

Initial sentence: Six weeks imprisonment and conductor's licence suspended for three months. Held in Middlesex House of Correction.

Outcome: 'Nil'.

Petitions and letters: Petition from the five proprietors of the Fulham Omnibus Association (employers); petition from E C May (husband of the victim) and his wife [unnamed]; petition of character from 64 inhabitants of Fulham and Hammersmith [Middlesex] and their environs (known to the prisoner); grounds for clemency cited as previous good conduct, his family are in distress.

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The National Archives, Kew
Former department reference
257/29
Legal status
Public Record(s)
Closure status
Open Document, Open Description
Record URL
https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C19756039/

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