QGR5/466

Minute book of the Visiting Justices [third volume] [see also QGR 4/1-360]. Mentions prisoners' diet, tobacco smoke from Debtor's Ward pervading the building, installation of gas, alterations to prison. Frontispiece includes prison rules and list of Visiting Justices. Page 466 includes the following:

4 & 5 August 1843

From: 1843 To: 1843

Friday 4 August: George P Livius. The female prisoner Sarah Dazeley who is condemned to death to be executed tomorrow seems much depressed and up to this moment denies her guilt. At her own particular desire Mr Gurry of Wrestlingworth has come over to visit her and is now in her day room with the Chaplain. Saturday 5 August: George P Livius. Visited the female prisoner Sarah Dazeley. She conversed in the serious charge on which she was sentenced to death. She in the most emphatic terms denied her guilt - up to the last moment. The strength of her nerves throughout appeared to me most extraordinary and beyond anything I could have conceived.

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Treganza,
Livius, George P,
Dazeley, Sarah,
Gurry

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