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Bedfordshire Easter Sessions Quarterly report of the Visiting Justices: W Stuart junior, William Lynn Smart, Henry Littledale, Henry Thornton, B H Starey, William Thornton, Frederick C G Passy, H W Beauford. Includes the following:

Easter 1862

From: 1862 To: 1862

1) Walter potter, warder and cook has resigned and Daniel Sewell has been appointed. 2) James Evans, a prisoner whilst undergoing previous sentence was detected in stealing bread from the baker's cart in the prison for which offence the Visiting Justices directed a prosecution at the Assizes when he was convicted of the offence and sentenced by Mr Baron Martin to a month's imprisonment. 3) New scullery copper ordered £10.5.10. 4) Gas meter reapaired £5.15.0 5) Suggestion to buy the laundry drying apparatus from the Bedford Asylum, now closing. 6)Governor has incurred expenses of ten pounds removing to Hertford Assizes two prisoners charged with burglary, should be reimbursed.

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Stuart, W.,
Smart, William Lynn,
Littledale, Henry,
Passy, Frederic Charles George,
Starey, Benjamin Helps,
Thornton, Henry,
Thornton, William,
Beauford, H W,
Potter, Walter,
Sewell, Daniel

BEDFORD, Hertford, Watford, Assizes, gaol, House of Correction, general justices of the peace, crime statistics, crime, imprisonment, punishment, chaplains, prison governors, Quarter Sessions, sanitation, felony, warden, cook, gas, Scullery, bread, theft, laundries, Bedford Asylum, burglary