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Catalogue description Home Office. Patrick Knowles, criminal lunatic for murder: removal under discharge from...
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| Reference: | T 1/11342/20734 |
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| Description: |
Home Office. Patrick Knowles, criminal lunatic for murder: removal under discharge from Broadmoor Criminal Lunatic Asylum to St Thomas Home, Preston, Lancs (Knowles did not know of any family or friends); payment of cost of care from the Prison Vote. [Knowles was 8 years old when he was committed for trial at Stockton-on-Tees Police court on 16 June 1903 for murder of Frederick Hughes aged 15 months. He was certified unfit to stand trial as 'being of unsound and unformed mind in consequence of his childhood and immaturity of development, which rendered him incapable of knowing the nature and the gravity of the act of murder'. He was trained as a tailor and discharged at the age of 17 to a person 'who will do everything in his power to secure for Knowles a good start in life']. |
| Note: | File classification: category B |
| Date: | 1911 |
| Held by: | The National Archives, Kew |
| Former reference in its original department: | Top file: 20734/11 |
| Legal status: | Public Record(s) |
| Closure status: | Open Document, Open Description |
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