QGR5/290

Minute book of the Visiting Justices [third volume] [see also QGR 4/1-360]. Mentions straw plaiting, female prisoners' diet, tobacco smoke from Debtor's Ward pervading the building, gas, new prisoners' diet. Frontispiece includes prison rules and list of Visiting Justices. Page 290 includes the following:

23 May 1840

From: 1840 To: 1840

Thomas Charles Higgins, George P Livius. We have received a complaint from the Gaoler against Luke Golding (charged with being a pickpocket) for assaulting violently William Stonehurst, and he has been kept in solitary confinement 48 hours. 29 prisoners.

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Higgins, Thomas Charles,
Livius, George P,
Treganza,
Short,
Golding, Luke,
Stonehurst, William

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