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    Ladies/Gents,

    Can anyone tell me in layman's terms what this phrase means?

    I'm curious to know as it's used during this case....




    Surely he wouldn't have just been allowed to go home, would he?

  • #2
    Yep.
    Released without bail.
    My name is Dave. You cannot reach me through Debs email account

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    • #3
      Check out The Mikado by Gilbert & Sullivan, and Koko's song in Act 1:

      Taken from the county jail,
      By a set of curious chances.
      Liberated then on bail,
      On my own recognizances.

      I.e, he had to be responsible for his own behaviour whilst on bail.

      Tra la!

      Graham
      We are suffering from a plethora of surmise, conjecture and hypothesis. - Sherlock Holmes, The Adventure Of Silver Blaze

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      • #4
        Originally posted by Graham View Post
        Check out The Mikado by Gilbert & Sullivan, and Koko's song in Act 1:

        Taken from the county jail,
        By a set of curious chances.
        Liberated then on bail,
        On my own recognizances.

        I.e, he had to be responsible for his own behaviour whilst on bail.

        Tra la!

        Graham
        Thanks chaps, so he must have just been allowed to return to his Regiment in India
        .

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        • #5
          It doesn’t say on his own recognizance. So others may have been required to put up some $$$. Not sure he’d have been able to go back to his regiment either having been found guilty and of unsound mind.

          Not sure what they’d call it today where you are but here it’d be a Good behaviour Bond.
          G U T

          There are two ways to be fooled, one is to believe what isn't true, the other is to refuse to believe that which is true.

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          • #6
            Originally posted by GUT View Post
            Not sure he’d have been able to go back to his regiment either having been found guilty and of unsound mind.
            That's what I thought, but following the case he returns back to India and doesn't get discharged from the army for another 3 years.


            Henry MOTTAM born Bethnal Green 1875

            Joins East Surrey Regiment as 4369 Pte on the 29th July 1893
            Service.......
            Home 29th July 1893 to 13.03.1894 (228 days)
            Malta 14.03.1894 to 04.10.1895 (1 year 205 days)
            India 05.10.1895 to 27.10.1905 (10 years 22 days)
            Home 28.10.1905

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            • #7
              Originally posted by The Station Cat View Post
              That's what I thought, but following the case he returns back to India and doesn't get discharged from the army for another 3 years.


              Henry MOTTAM born Bethnal Green 1875

              Joins East Surrey Regiment as 4369 Pte on the 29th July 1893
              Service.......
              Home 29th July 1893 to 13.03.1894 (228 days)
              Malta 14.03.1894 to 04.10.1895 (1 year 205 days)
              India 05.10.1895 to 27.10.1905 (10 years 22 days)
              Home 28.10.1905

              In that case yes they took him back
              G U T

              There are two ways to be fooled, one is to believe what isn't true, the other is to refuse to believe that which is true.

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              • #8
                If they said he was temporarily insane perhaps he just had to see a doctor before he was deemed fit to return to india.

                Pat....

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