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Prisoner name: Margaret Logan, aged 27. Court and Date of Trial: Birmingham sessions,...

Catalogue reference: HO 18/236/43

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This record is about the Prisoner name: Margaret Logan, aged 27. Court and Date of Trial: Birmingham sessions,... dating from 1849 in the series Home Office: Criminal Petitions, Series II. It is held at The National Archives, Kew.

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HO 18/236/43
Date
1849
Description

Prisoner name: Margaret Logan, aged 27.

Court and Date of Trial: Birmingham sessions, March 1849.

Crime: Receiving stolen goods.

Initial sentence: Transportation for 14 years.

Gaoler's Report: Character not known.

Outcome: Answered May 1849. Nil.

Petitions and letters: Petition from Thomas Hennin, merchant, and 15 others including jurymen, on behalf of the prisoner in Warwick gaol. She is a mother of four, stated to be of good character and again pregnant. Report sought from the Recorder of Birmingham and provided by two investigating magistrates who undermine the petition and assert many of the signatories were ignorant of the contents and now wish to withdraw. Letters enclosed from the original thief, a runaway girl, and her brother, to their parents (the prosecutors) blaming Logan for their predicament.

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The National Archives, Kew
Former department reference
236/43
Legal status
Public Record(s)
Closure status
Open Document, Open Description
Record URL
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Home Office: Criminal Petitions, Series II

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