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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: Daniel Fitzgerald, aged 24. Court and Date of Trial: Old Bailey, 7th...
Catalogue reference: HO 18/275/39
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- HO 18/275/39
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1850-1860
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Prisoner Name: Daniel Fitzgerald, aged 24.
Court and Date of Trial: Old Bailey, 7th January 1850.
Crime: [Feloniously] returning from Transportation.
Initial Sentence: Transportation for life.
Gaoler's Report: Before transported for 10 years. [Previously sentenced to 10 years transportation on 16th April 1844].
Outcome: Conditional Discharge. ‘Conditional license, 27th October 1860. Granted Conditional License excluding his return to the County of Middlesex.’
Petitions and letters: Petition from the prisoner gives details of his absconding from Gibraltar, having unexpectedly found himself on the Spanish shore, he had ‘found the temptation to abscond was irresistible’. Grounds for clemency: for the sake of his wife and family.
A second, similar petition from the prisoner, additionally signed by four former employers in London, testifying to his honesty.
Two statements from Chatham Convict prison that he has been received from Bermuda. They state that his conduct in prison-‘ Millbank and Pentonville was good, at Bermuda- exemplary, Millbank- good, and Chatham- very good.’
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Held by (Who holds the record)
- The National Archives, Kew
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- 275/39
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HO 18
Home Office: Criminal Petitions, Series II
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