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  • Patrick Reid, Roman Catholic, 25

    Date: 8 Jan 1848

    Crime:
    Murder of Caroline Ellis, 20, servant of James Wraith, 76, of Water Royd Hall, Mirfield, near Dewsbury, and of James Wraith and his wife Ann Wraith, about 65, in the course of a robbery on 12 May 1847.

    Before his execution Reid wrote a statement confessing to being the sole agent in the murders. The statement procured a reprieve for Michael McCabe who had been convicted of the murders with him.

    Chaplain's Journal: 8 Jan 1848. Leeds Mercury, 24 Dec 1847; 1 Jan 1848.

  • James Reid

    Date: 15 Nov 1746

    Crime:
    High treason - Jacobite rising.

    London Evening Post, 20 Nov 1746.

  • Patrick Doring

    Date: 12 Apr 1817

    Crime:
    Rape of Ann Broadbent, servant to Mr Buckles of Quick, Saddleworth, aged 13.

    Leeds Mercury, 29 Mar 1817.

  • Patrick Johnson

    Date: Mar 1725

    See also TNA: ASSI 45/18/2(41-2).

    TNA: ASSI 41/2-53.

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  • William Patrick

    Date: Summer 1729 Hull

    Crime:
    Stealing from the house of William Mould, merchant in the High Street of Kingston-upon-Hull, several silver spoons, tankards, spurrs and other goods; reprieved.

    TNA: ASSI 41/2-77; ASSI 45/18/6(51B).

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  • William Wilson of Hunton, Patrick Brompton, grocer and linen draper

    Date: 1806

    Imprisoned in York Castle pending bankruptcy proceedings in Sep 1806.

    London Gazette 15953, 2 Sep 1806, p 1167

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