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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: Joel Mince [Mincz, Mintz, or Minez]. Court and Date of Trial: Staffordshire...
Catalogue reference: HO 18/277/40
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HO 18/277/40
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1850
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Prisoner name: Joel Mince [Mincz, Mintz, or Minez].
Court and Date of Trial: Staffordshire Adjourned Quarter Sessions March 1850.
Crime: Stealing money the property of Mr Atkinson.
Initial sentence: Six months' imprisonment with hard labour.
Outcome: Conditional pardon to four months' imprisonment 9 May 1850.
Petitions and letters: Petition by Patrick McMahon, counsel for the prisoner, reciting the details of the case and advising that the prisoner is a Russian Jew with a limited knowledge of English. He pleads that the prisoner is innocent, his previous good character and he had no reason to steal the money as he had assets of his own; depositions by William Atkinson, Amelia Atkinson, John Drakeford, William Walker and John Tuse with annotations; letter from Patrick McMahon requesting an interview to discuss the case with annotation that HW [Horatio Waddington] would be happy to see him 'any day next week between one and four'.
Letters from W Challinor, Henry Franks, J Phillips, J Cook and Lewis Wyatt regarding items bought from the prisoner; letter from W Fulford, Governor Stafford gaol, stating that George Mayer acquired a hawker's licence for the prisoner, and he considered him to be an honest and upright man.
Two reports by Henry Pike, chairman of Quarter Sessions, with notes of evidence reciting the circumstances of the case and recommending that the sentence is mitigated to three or four months' imprisonment on the grounds of the temptation to which the prisoner was exposed, his ignorance of English law and language and the doubtful nature of the evidence.
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277/40
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Home Office: Criminal Petitions, Series II
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