Note
The Oxford Journal reported (column 1 about 3/4 of the way down, under the heading 'Multum in parvo'):
Free pardon last week sent for Shipton Draper, in Hertford Gaol, convicted last assizes of highway robbery.
See the newspaper article on London Courier and Evening Gazette, December 14 1827 (last column) and Chester Chronicle December 14 1827 (5th column), where James Winter (or Martin) was hung for murder. About two-thirds into both articles, it says:
"...but nothing would induce him to make a confession, beyond that of having committed a robbery upon an elderly person in Hertfordshire, for which robbery a man named Shipton Smith was lately convicted at Hertford, but who, he said, was innocent."
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