Bedfordshire Archives Service Catalogue
  • Reference
    QGR2/3/1/5
  • Title
    Report of the prison governor Robert Evan Roberts to Bedfordshire Midsummer Sessions 1863. With table showing number of prisoners for trial, convicted prisoners and summarily convicted with offences. Includes the following comments:
  • Date free text
    30 June 1863
  • Production date
    From: 1863 To: 1863
  • Scope and Content
    Jonathan Ellis and Jesse Stanbridge have been removed to convict prison Parkhurst, by order of the Secretary of State. John King and James Rayment both Middlesex convicts, died, the former on 22nd June and the latter 28th April last, verdict of the Jury died by the vistation of God, both were interred in the Bedford Cemetery. On 24th April John Williams another of the Middlesex convicts was removed to the Colney Hatch Lunatic Asylum. George Garrard, another of the Middlesex convicts, committed suicide by strangling himself with the sheets of his bedding, and was found dead in his cell at unlocking time on the morning of the 19th instant. Verdict of the Jury died from strangulation he being at the time in a state of temporary insanity; the deceased was interred in Bedford Cemetery. Henry Winfield,a vagrant committed from the Luton bench for 21 days, he being a ticket of leave convict, had his licence revoked and was removed back to the Convict Depot by order of the Secretary of State to undergo the remaining portion of his sentence unexpired. Charles Eagles and William Spurgeon two lads committed from the Town of Bedford for robbing a till and sentenced to one month and four years in a reformatory school have been removed - the former to Blackley in Lancashire and the latter to Weston under Wetherley in Warwickshire.
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