Bedfordshire Archives Service Catalogue
  • Reference
    QGR4/305
  • Title
    Minute Book of the Visiting Justices' weekly meetings [second Volume]. Contains information on prisoners' numbers, health, and conduct, officers' conduct, contracts for supplies, those awaiting transportation, etc. Page 305 includes the following:
  • Date free text
    28 May 1832
  • Production date
    From: 1832 To: 1832
  • Scope and Content
    Philip Hunt, Robert Moore The Gaolers journal was examined by which it appears that [James] Green (charged with felony) has again torn a part of his blanket and he pretends that it was done to hold up the irons with which he is hampered in consequence of his former attempts to escape. The Gaolers Journal also states that [James] Green, [James] Lankin, [Henry] Tarrant, [Thomas] Allum and [Henry] Dyer are in solitary confinement in consequence of having wilfully cut and broken the window blinds and shutters of their sleeping cells on the 25th of this month, Friday last. The Gaoler also reported that Green & Lanking had converted various pieces of iron and tin plate into instruments fit for facilitating their escape. The Gaoler was examined as to the intentions of the aforesaid prisoners and he thinks that the iron instruments were formed with an intention to wrench off the Venetian window blinds to enable them to see some equestrian perfomances in the neighbouring field. [James] Green was brought before the Visiting Justices and after the examination of the Turnkey James Banfield month and the prisoner having heard in his defence which he acknowledges himself guilty of breaking the shutter in order to see some equestrian performances in an adjoining field. The Justices decided that it is not necesary to punish him beyond two days solitary confinement with an admonition and that the irons be continued.
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