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Prisoner Name: Alfred Coates, aged 28, from Rastrick, Huddersfield, Yorkshire. Court...

Catalogue reference: HO 18/275/29

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This record is about the Prisoner Name: Alfred Coates, aged 28, from Rastrick, Huddersfield, Yorkshire. Court... dating from 1850 in the series Home Office: Criminal Petitions, Series II. It is held at The National Archives, Kew.

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HO 18/275/29
Date
1850
Description

Prisoner Name: Alfred Coates, aged 28, from Rastrick, Huddersfield, Yorkshire.

Court and Date of Trial: York Winter Assizes, December 1848.

Crime: Stabbing.

Initial Sentence: Ten years transportation.

Outcome: Nil.

Petitions and letters: Petition from the Prisoner’s father, (enclosing a letter from his son.) Grounds for clemency: good conduct, both prior to offence and whilst in prison; the prisoner’s health, he is subject to fits [he refers here to the son’s letter].

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The National Archives, Kew
Former department reference
275/29
Legal status
Public Record(s)
Closure status
Open Document, Open Description
Record URL
https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C21077092/

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Home Office: Criminal Petitions, Series II

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