QGR5/214

Minute book of the Visiting Justices [third volume] [see also QGR 4/1-360]. Page 213 - 214 includes the following:

15 November 1836

From: 1836 To: 1836

Frederick H Neve It appears that this morning during the time of prayers all the prisoners being at Chapel excepting [Job] Underwood and [John] Winterpen, both on the sick list some one came downstairs and broke open the bread cupboard. The person so offending was alarmed by Mr Tregenza's son coming toward the hall and consequently left the place with out taking anything with him, he was followed but the man was already in his cell before the young Tregenza got up, the cell was that occupied by Underwood and it seems certain that he was the offender though he positively denies it. The man has been punished twice for misconduct since his conviction at the March Assizes. On consultation with Mr Short [the surgeon] he recommended that the business should not be investigated finally till Monday next, though he thinks Underwood so little of an invalid that he has directed his extra diet should be discontinued from this day. He has been on the sick list for nearly four months though it has been only during the last fortnight he has had any extra diet.

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Neve, Frederick Hervey,
Treganza,
Short,
Underwood, Job,
Winterpen, John

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