Catalogue description Prisoner name: Joseph Gamble. Prisoner age: Age 16. Prisoner occupation: Apprentice....

Prisoner name: Joseph Gamble.

Prisoner age: Age 16.

Prisoner occupation: Apprentice.

Court and date of trial: Leicester Borough Sessions [Leicestershire] October 1837.

Crime: Obtaining handkerchiefs by false pretences, the property of Samuel Christopher Westlake of Leicester.

Initial sentence: Six months imprisonment.

Annotated: Conditional pardon. Remission prepared 13 January 1838.

Petitioner(s): Richard Brown, the prisoner's employer, with 14 signatures attesting to the prisoner's good character. Richard Brown, Granly Street, Leicester.

Grounds for clemency: This is the prisoner's first offence and he was lead astray by an older youth; the prisoner's employer was not available to give a character reference but will re-employ the prisoner if he is liberated in less than six months.

Other papers: Letter to the Recorder of Leicester from Whitehall on behalf of Sir John Russell and response from the Recorder of Leicester on the same paper. Letter from Richard Brown, to the Home Department.

Additional Information: Prisoner tried with Samuel Haseldine, aged 17.