Bedfordshire Archives Service Catalogue
  • Reference
    QGR2/8/2/4
  • Title
    Report of the prison governor Robert Evan Roberts to the Bedfordshire Easter Sessions 1874. Includes the following:
  • Date free text
    7 April 1874
  • Production date
    From: 1874 To: 1874
  • Scope and Content
    Number of prisoners in custody 4 April 1874 = 139. The committals during the quarter have been 72 males and 10 females = 82 being a decrease of 14 as compared with the corresponding quarter last year, of 42 as compared with 1872 and of 40 as compared with 1871. Of the 82 prisoners 58 were residents and 24 non-residents of the County. 30 could read and write imperfectly, 21 read only, and 31 could neither read nor write. 13 had been in prison once before, 4 twice, 3 thrice and 9 four times and upwards. On 4th February Samuel Taverner, sentenced to penal servitude, was removed to Pentonville Convict Depot. On 19th January, Robert Sinfield, and on the 23rd March Thomas Clarke and Walter Ward were removed to the Beds Reformatory. During the quarter 58 military prisoners have been received and 44 discharged. One prisoner has also been received under contract from the County of Middlesex. John Rankin, one of the military prisoners had a portion of his sentence remitted on the 2nd February last to enable him to rejoin his regiment about to embark for India. On 13th February last A.D. No.12922 [Ada Desborough] was placed on discharged from prison in a refuge in London through the good offices of the Bedfordshire Discharged Prisoners Aid Society. Walter Thrower, sentenced to 6 calendar months imprisonment at the last County Sessions for felony, died about 2 o clock in the morning of the 29th ultimo after a few days illness. A Coroner's inquest was subsequently held. Verdict - died from natural causes, inflammation of the lungs. The Government Inspector of Prisons (Mr H Briscoe) inspected the prison on 21st Feb last and reported his visit as highly satisfactory.
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