Prisoner Name: Thomas Gwyne, aged 17. Court and Date of Trial: Worcester City sessions,...

Prisoner Name: Thomas Gwyne, aged 17.

Court and Date of Trial: Worcester City sessions, 26 February 1849.

Crime: Larceny. Stealing a cannister of snuff.

Initial Sentence: Seven years transportation.

Gaoler's Report: ‘Once before convicted of felony, and six times summarily.’

Outcome: Nil.

Petitions and letters: Petition from the prisoner, sent from Shorncliffe Convict station. He claims that he was tried unjustly: he was committed on 24 February and tried on the 26th February, so had no time to get professional advice; the court refused to call to court the parties from whom he told them he had bought the snuff; a Police Inspector told the Chairman that the petitioner had been previously convicted, and that his brother had been transported whereas actually his brother was serving as a soldier, not transported. He begs that his case be reviewed, and his sentence remitted.