Bedfordshire Archives Service Catalogue
  • Reference
    QGR2/7/1/2
  • Title
    Report of the Prison Governor Robert Evan Roberts to the Easter Sessions. Includes the following:
  • Date free text
    4 April 1871
  • Production date
    From: 1871 To: 1871
  • Scope and Content
    Number of prisoners in custody 25 March 1871 = 144 Committals during the Quarter = 112 males 10 females = 122 Of the 122 committals 80 were resident and 42 non-resident. 44 could read and write imperfectly, 39 read only and 39 could neither read or write. 23 had been in this prison once before, 9 twice, 4 thrice and 11 four times and upwards. On 22nd March last Henry Wheatley, Thomas Williams, Rowland Denton, Joseph Mayes, and James Thody, convicts under sentence of penal servitude were removed to the Pentonville Convict Prison. During the Quarter Edward Goff, John Richards, Arthur Chesham have been removed to the Beds Reformatory. Arthur Macdonald Bailey and Joseph Bailey to the Manchester and Salford Reformatory. Fifteen Middlesex prisoners have been discharged and the same number received. William Bull, aged 22, convicted at the last Assizes and sentenced to death was executed on Monday morning last, the 3rd April, within the walls of the prison, pursuant to Act of Parliament 31 Victoria bearing date 29th May 1868. The Coroner of the jurisdiction to which the prisoner belonged held an inquest at 12 o clock the same day. Verdict of the Jury "That the deceased William Bull had died from apoplexy caused by hanging.' The wretched man made a full confession of his guilt and admitted the justice of his sentence. He was lamentably ignorant and a sad specimen of parental neglect. To poaching, Sabbath breaking and resorting to beerhouses he attributed the cause of his ruin. Immediately after the Sessions I shall pay the County Treasurer the sum of £200 as profits on prison labour.
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