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Prisoner name: Joseph Cowdell. Court and Date of Trial: Middlesex Sessions, 1845....
Catalogue reference: HO 18/166/29
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- HO 18/166/29
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1845
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Description (What the record is about)
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Prisoner name: Joseph Cowdell.
Court and Date of Trial: Middlesex Sessions, 1845.
Crime: Larceny.
Initial sentence: Imprisonment 3 months.
Outcome: Insane; remove to an asylum.
Petitions and letters: Letter from William Curtis Baronet and Thomas Amyot, two Magistrates, plus Harry Wakefield and John Lavies, two Surgeons, testifying to the insanity of the prisoner.
Letter from Charles Allen, Clerk to the Visiting Justices at Westminster, 1845, of the insanity of the prisoner.
Letter from Charles Young, stating the prisoner was at Westminster House of correction directly after sentencing and, by mid January, he was moved to Middlesex Lunatic Asylum at Hanwell, where he remained as a Lunatic Pauper. Application has been made to move the prisoner to Bethnal Green Lunatic Asylum. Response from J Morrison, Clerk of the Asylum at Hanwell, to say they have no power to sanction the prisoner's discharge.
Permission given by July 1846 to remove the prisoner to Bethnal Green.
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Held by (Who holds the record)
- The National Archives, Kew
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- 166/29
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- Topics
- Mental illness
- Poverty
- Crime
- Prisons
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HO 18
Home Office: Criminal Petitions, Series II
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