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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: Wiliam Lucas, aged 17. Court and Date of Trial: Wiltshire quarter...
Catalogue reference: HO 18/236/37
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- 1849-1855
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Prisoner name: Wiliam Lucas, aged 17.
Court and Date of Trial: Wiltshire quarter sessions, Devizes. February 1849.
Crime: Larceny.
Initial sentence: Transportation for seven years.
Gaoler's Report: Character bad, convicted before.
Outcome: Free pardon, 12 February 1851. Sentence commuted to two years imprisonment.
Petitions and letters: First petition from nine locals, including the Prosecutor William Smithe[sic], on behalf of prisoner in Sarum county gaol, seeks commutation of sentence and removal to a penitentiary, but he is seemingly too old for this. Forwarded by James Wilson, MP for Westbury, who submits a second petition in 1850, signed by the Mayor, James Tayler Singer; the chairman of the trial magistrates, Mr Ravenhill, (who also writes), and 25 other 'respectable citizens' agreeing the sentence is severe for stealing a brass tap while 'driven by hunger'. His good conduct in Pentonville and on the Warrior hulk is confirmed.
In 1855 Lucas himself, now in London, writes seeking employment in the post office, the answer is 'certainly not'.
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- 236/37
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Home Office: Criminal Petitions, Series II
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