Catalogue description Prisoner name: George Bunn or George Bown . Prisoner details: Age 22. Court and date of...
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Reference: | HO 17/56/11 |
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Description: |
Prisoner name: George Bunn or George Bown. Prisoner details: Age 22. Court and date of trial: Dorset Lent Assizes March 1837. Crime: Robbery of [Thomas Turner]. Initial sentence: Death sentence commuted to transportation for life. Gaoler's report: Character not known. 'Charged with felony before.' Annotated (Outcome): Nil. Petitioner(s): Jane Gardner of Whitechurch, Dorset, the convict's mother; Thomas Parce of Whitechurch, the convict's master. Grounds for clemency (Petition Details): A fellow convict bribed to implicate the prisoner; all the witnesses had reasons for the prisoner to be sent away. Additional Information: On the Leviathan hulk. |
Date: | 1837 [May]; 1837 Sept |
Held by: | The National Archives, Kew |
Former reference in its original department: | Ix 11 |
Legal status: | Public Record(s) |
Language: | English |
Closure status: | Open Document, Open Description |
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