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Prisoner name: George Turner. Court and Date of Trial: Old Bailey, November 1848....

Catalogue reference: HO 18/257/30

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HO 18/257/30
Date
1849
Description

Prisoner name: George Turner.

Court and Date of Trial: Old Bailey, November 1848.

Crime: Obtaining money by false pretences, namely three shillings from H M Service by enlisting whilst knowing that he was unfit for service.

Initial sentence: 12 months imprisonment with hard labour.

Outcome: 'Free pardon, 2 October 1849'.

Petitions and letters: Petition from George Turner (the prisoner); petition of recommendation from Charles Wright (Clerk to and directed by the visiting justices to Middlesex House of Correction, Cold Bath Fields, Clerkenwell, Middlesex); certificate of ill-health (disease of the knee joint) from Henry Wakefield (surgeon to the House of Correction); grounds for clemency cited that continued imprisonment will endanger his life.

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The National Archives, Kew
Former department reference
257/30
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Closure status
Open Document, Open Description
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Home Office: Criminal Petitions, Series II

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