Bedfordshire Archives Service Catalogue
  • Reference
    QGR2/6/1/3
  • Title
    Report of the Prison Governor Robert Evan Roberts to Easter Sessions 1869. Includes the following:
  • Date free text
    6 April 1869
  • Production date
    From: 1869 To: 1869
  • Scope and Content
    160 prisoners on 6th April 1869. The committals during the quarter have been 245 males and 30 females, total 275 being an increase of 61 as compared to the corresponding quarter of last year. 169 were residents, 116 non-residents.. 3 could read and write well, 96 imperfectly, 77 could only read, and 99 could do neither. Lengthy comments on the large numbers committed for vagrancy. During the quarter 45 Middlesex prisoners have been discharged and 24 received. On the 4th February David Chapman was removed to the Beds Reformatory, and Edward Toms to Blackley Reformatory, and on the 18th March Ann Jelly was sent to the Girls Reformatory, Liverpool. On the 10th January last Henry Young, aged 34, a Middlesex Convict under sentence of six calendar months imrisonment and received into this prison 11th November, 1868, committed suicide by hanging. No reason could be assigned for this, the prisoner had not complained and his conduct in prison had been good. A coroner's inquest was held, verdict 'temporary insanity'. On the 23rd January John Bergin, another of the Middlesex Convicts, died. He was in delicate health on admission, A coroner's inquest was held, verdict congestion of the brain. Both were interred in the Bedford Cemetery. The increased cell accommodation on the femalwe side of the prison has been approved and certified by the inspector of prisons.
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