Letter: Hugh Jones, keeper of Beaumaris Gaol to [?]

This material is held atArchifau Ynys Môn / Anglesey Archives

  • Reference
    • GB 221 WQ19/8
  • Alternative Id.
      GB 221 WQA/LUN/8
  • Dates of Creation
    • 1837 Oct. 18
  • Language of Material
    • English
  • Physical Description
    • 1 item

Scope and Content

LETTER: Hugh Jones, keeper of Beaumaris Gaol to [?] telling him that William Williams who is now a lunatic was committed to his custody on 31 May 1834 for assaulting his mother and daughters and convicted to 6 months hard labour with bails to keep the peace for 2 years (which he was unable to find) and at the expiration of that period he was discharged on 31 December 1836.

On the same day he was committed for an assault on the servant of one of the magistrates who committed him before and threatened to blow his master’s brains out with a pistol.

For this offence he was tried and convicted to 2 years imprisonment.

He has been attended by the surgeon of the prison for epileptic fits to which he was subject before his insanity.

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