Catalogue description Prisoner name: George Bunn or George Bown . Prisoner details: Age 22. Court and date of...

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Details of HO 17/56/11
Reference: HO 17/56/11
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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