1842 : Alfred Pluckrose is Sentenced to Seven Years Imprisonment

Title:  The Era, 177 1
Date:   13 February 1842
Place: London

CENTRAL CRIMINAL COURT

SESSIONAL RESULTS. - At the termination of the sessions, Tuesday (8 February 1842), several prisoners were brought up for judgment, and some to have the periods of their former sentences revised, and the terms reduced. The following are the results:- Transportation for Life: William Yates and John Atkinson, alias Smith; the last-named, being a returned convict, is to be kept to hard labor in the House of Correction for six months before his expatriation. - For Fifteen Years: Patrick Flannagan and John Harcourt. - For Fourteen Years: Mary King and Mary Taylor. - For twice Seven Years: Sarah Price, alias Pugh. - For Ten Years: J. M‘Gregor, J. Payne, W. Smith, David Harrington, W. Metcalfe, J. Brown, John Barry, A. Mortimer, William Smith, John Bennett, John Charlton, T. Eggleton, Sarah Atkins, alias Jones, John Williams, James King, Thomas Carroll, William Thomas, John Brown, Mary Banks, William Beglie. - For Seven Years: James Nicholson, William Estworthy, J. Jones, Thomas Breen, Charles Whitmore, J. Dalen, John Davis, R. Light, Alfred Pluckrose, William Henderson, W. Livermore, J. Rickards, William Connor, Mary Regan. Several others were sentenced to various periods of imprisonment.

This is almost certainly PL1955 in Tree 1010.  The sentence seems rather harsh. See the previous record.

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