Bedfordshire Archives Service Catalogue
  • Reference
    QGR2/6/1/6
  • Title
    Report of the Prison Governor Robert Evan Roberts to Midsummer Sessions 1869. Includes the following:
  • Date free text
    29 June 1869
  • Production date
    From: 1869 To: 1869
  • Scope and Content
    170 prisoners on 26th June 1869. The committals during the quarter have been 166 males and 21 females, total 187 being an increase of 51 as compared to the corresponding quarter of last year. 107 were residents, 80 non-residents. 2 could read and write well, 60 imperfectly, 54 could only read, and 71 could do neither. Richard Whitbread, Thomas Coleman, Benjamin Peach, William Coleman, William Scales, John Jackson, and James West, sentenced to penal servitude at the Lent Assizes have been removed to Pentonville Convict Depot by order of the Secretary of State. On the 6th April John Odell and on the 20th April Robert Watkins were removed to Beds Reformatory. Two deaths have occurred during the quarter, viz. Thomas Kenney on the 24th April and William Eastaff on the 4th June. An inquest was held on each case, verdict - died from natural causes. Both were interred in Bedford Cemetery. Owing to the crowded sate of the prison during the past quarter, the Prison Acts as to separation has not been carried out and the association of prisoners has unavoidably been resorted to. Diarrhoea has been very prevalent during the past quarter particularly among the male prisoners. The Chaplain's (George Maclear) official connection with the prison terminated on Sunday last and I beg here to record my grateful thanks for the hearty co-operation and great kindness I have at all times received from him in the discharge of the duties of the Gaol.
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