Complex sentence: After being acquitted in Mayor's Court, in 1827 mulatto gang member John Purnell (alias John Smith and others) was convicted on two counts of kidnapping in Philadelphia County Court in Pennsylvania; he was sentenced to a fine and 42 years in jail.
Split into simpler sentences: After being acquitted in Mayor's Court, mulatto gang member John Purnell (alias John Smith and others) was convicted on two counts of kidnapping in Philadelphia County Court in Pennsylvania in 1827. He was sentenced to a fine and 42 years in jail.