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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: George Lawson and Anne Smith, alias Ann Smith. Court and Date of...
Catalogue reference: HO 18/236/44
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HO 18/236/44
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1849-1855
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Prisoner name: George Lawson and Anne Smith, alias Ann Smith.
Court and Date of Trial: Committed May 1849 to Durham gaol.
Crime: Lawson - in default of payment of fine for assault.
Smith - vagrancy.
Initial sentence: Lawson - six weeks.
Smith - 10 days.
Outcome: Both insane. Removal to Durham lunatic asylum.
Smith discharged 20 August 1855.
Petitions and letters: Petitions from Durham Justices for the immediate removal of both from the house of correction to the local asylum, as Smith's sentence is so short. Certificates of insanity from two surgeons for both attached.
In June 1850 the Justices' clerk seeks Lawson's discharge from Gateshead asylum as he is 'convalescent'. Certificate of sanity requested.
In August 1855 two surgeons attest to the sanity of Smith and her fitness for discharge from Bensham asylum.
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236/44
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Home Office: Criminal Petitions, Series II
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