Catalogue description Report of John Heath on Charles Larford, convicted at the Hampshire Assizes at...

Report of John Heath on Charles Larford, convicted at the Hampshire Assizes at Southampton in 1783, for the murder of Daniel Dunn on 18/19/20 June 1783 (differing dates are given). Evidences supplied by Moses Seymor, plasterer; John Napper, staymaker; James Purkis, brewer; George Jean, butcher; Mathew Brooke, waiter at the Dolphin Inn; Dr Brazier, Sarah Huckler, John McCombie, adjutant in the Hampshire Militia; John Goldwyer, surgeon; William Couzens, victualler; James Sandiford, Serjeant and Clerk to the South Hampshire Militia; James Kunnison, merchant; Richard Penfold, sawyer of Weston and John Hunt, brewer. Grounds for clemency: good previous character, first offence, deceased was drunk at time of death, was probably innocent of the crime but being an 'ignorant fellow' placed to much on his innocence, application made to the judge by the Recorder of Southampton and if issues raised since the trial were announced in court it may have led to his acquittal. Initial sentence, death. Recommendation: to be pardoned on condition he serves 7 years on the hulks in the Thames. Folios 1-16. See also HO 47/1/43, folios 184-185.

See also HO 47/1/43, folios 184-185.