Prisoner name: Benjamin Lintott, aged 32 and Frederick Lintott, aged 19. Court and...

Prisoner name: Benjamin Lintott, aged 32 and Frederick Lintott, aged 19.

Court and Date of Trial: Central Criminal Court, November 1848.

Crime: Burglary.

Initial sentence: Transportation for seven years.

Gaoler's Report: Benjamin - character good. Frederick - unknown.

Outcome: Nil.

Petitions and letters: First petition from Benjamin in Millbank prison, seeking commutation of sentence on the grounds of his good character, having served in the navy on the Wellesley in the China war and received a silver medal. He states his crime was the result of abject poverty, he has a dependent wife and two children in the Islington workhouse and suffers from a heart condition.

Second petition in 1851 from Jemima Lintott, sister of both Benjamin and Frederick, who is now on the Warrior at Gosport, asking for mitigation of sentence for both on the grounds that they have served two years and seven months and are reformed.

Third petition by Jemima, on behalf of Benjamin only, now in Shornecliffe barracks, to assist a poor widowed relative, with whom he has inherited a shared bequest which is unobtainable until his release. The response is to suggest they apply to the Treasury about the property.