Statewide County CT Archives History .....Report Of The Directors Of The Connecticut State Prison, 1860 May 1860 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/ct/ctfiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Barbara W, Brown buwbrown@comcast.net August 8, 2008, 3:43 pm Unbound booklet entitled "Report of the Directors of the Connecticut State Prison, to the General Assembly, May Session, 1860." (printed by order of the Legislature by Day & Clark, State Printers, Hartford, 1860). Among the statistics, the following items are of especial interest: Prisoners pardoned by General Assembly, May session, 1859: Name Nativity Crimes Franklin Fenner Providence, R.I. Stealing horse & wagon Thomas Regan Ireland Attempt at murder Latham Bush Stamford, Ct. Rape William Sanford Valley Falls, R.I. Passing counterfeit money William E. Carpenter New York Burglary & theft Sherman Blood Groton, Ct. Manslaughter Frank Hilton Boston, Mass. Passing counterfeit money Tim. Donnahue Ireland Bestiality George W. Taylor Prospect, Ct. Arson Charles Shaver Groton, N.Y. Theft Prisoners under sentence for life: Names, age when admitted, nativity, where convicted, when convicted, crime. Those marked with an asterisk were sentenced to be hanged, and their sentences were commuted by the Legislature to imprisonment for life. Benjamin Scott, ae 27, b. New York; Litchfield; Sept. 2, 1841; attempt at murder Harry Andrews, ae 17, b. Weston, Ct.; Fairfield; Oct. 30, 1845; rape Lucina Coleman, ae 50, b. Hartford, Ct.; Sept. 25, 1849; murder, 2nd degree John Brown, ae 35, b. Ireland; Tolland; Nov. 3, 1849; murder, 2nd degree William O. Chapin, ae 32, b. Massachusetts; Hartford; Feb. 8, 1849; rape Benjamin S. Balcomb*, ae 21, b. Colebrook, Ct.; Litchfield; July 8, 1851; murder Henry Mennasseth*, ae 48, b. Farmington, Ct.; Litchfield; July 8, 1851; murder William H. Calhoun*, ae 20, b. Nassau, NY; Litchfield; July 8, 1851; murder Catharine Dunn, ae 34, b. Ireland; New London; Sept. 29, 1851; murder, 2nd degree Nicholas Parrava, ae 24, b. Island of St. Jago; New London; Oct. 5, 1853; murder, 2nd degree Michael Mooney, ae 28, b. Ireland; New Haven; Nov. 8, 1853; murder, 2nd degree Morris Nichols, ae 29, b. Greenfield, Ct.; Fairfield; Mar. 10, 1854; murder, 2nd degree Isaac Randolph*, ae 45, b. Pennsylvania; N. Haven; July 16, 1856; murder, 2nd degree Albert Northrop, ae 22, b. Washington, Ct.; New Haven; Sept. 13, 1856; bestiality John A. Benson, ae 35, b. Rocky Hill, Ct.; Middlesex; Sept. 25, 1858; perjury with intent to take life Benjamin Roberts, ae 40, b. New Milford, Ct.; Hartford; Dec. 29, 1858; murder, 2nd degree John P. Warren, ae 21, b. Coventry, Ct.; Tolland; Dec. 14, 1859; murder, 2nd degree Seven convicts have died during the year. The following is a concise account of each: 1. A man who had been in prison since 1847, 44 years of age, died of apoplexy, May 1st 2. 2nd. A colored man, aged 63, died July 25th, of aneurism of the abominal aorta. He was suffering from the disease at the time of his commitment, two months previous. 3. A colored boy, aged 20, died of pulmonary consumption, Sept. 5th. 4. A colored man, aged 23, died of pulmonary consumption, Oct. 23rd. 5th. A man, 30 years of age, died Oct. 27th, of typhoid fever. This man had a frail constitution, and had been sick a considerable portion of the time he had been in prison. The disease of which he died was unusually severe in its attack. 6th. A man aged 33, of rather a frail constitution, but usually in tolerable health, died of inflammation of bowels, (acute peritonitis) Dec. 14th. 7th. A man aged 28, died March 14th, of pulmonary constitution. This man had been in the Hospital a year previous, apparently in the last stages of his disease,-but becoming more comfortable, he at length went to the shop at his own request, and continued in very tolerable health till winter, when his former symptoms returned, from which time he declined rapidly. File at -- http://files.usgwarchives.net/ct/statewide/history/other/reportof87gms.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/ctfiles/ File size: 4.7 Kb