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RefNoKHCP/1/8/24
AltRefNoHCP/1/8/24
TitleA torn letter from H.Y. Smythies the examining J.P. (Stanground), to H. Sweeting, Esq., Huntingdon, encloses a page containing information that Joseph Forth, alias Freer was 5 years ago concerned with James Rider in breaking open a poultry house in Whittlesea and stealing geese. Rider and Forth were committed to Ely Gaol - Forth escaped from the constable. Was later committed to Northampton Gaol for breaking open a dwelling house. Was sentenced at 1819 Spring Assizes to death - reprieved by the Judge, sentence mitigated to nine year's imprisonment in Northampton Jail where he married a felon's daughter and has since resided in Stanground. The inhabitants wanted to get rid of him. Mr. Smythies asked Mr. Sweeting to do all be could to obtain costs - Habart being an industrious men unable to afford the expense of the prosecution.
Date1822
CreatorNameHuntingdonshire Quarter Sessions records
RepositoryHuntingdonshire Archives
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