Old Bailey Proceedings:
Old Bailey Proceedings: Accounts of Criminal Trials
10th September 1783
612.
THOMAS
MILLINGTON
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was indicted
for returning from transportation and being found at large, without any lawful cause
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(The Record read as before.)
JOHN
TOWNSEND
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sworn.
I know the prisoner very well? - Where did you see him? - I saw him last April sessions, he was tried before this Court, for stealing a quantity of muslin and other things.
What was his sentence? - He was sentenced to be transported to America for seven years.
Was you in Court at the time? - I was, he is one of the people I took down to the ship.
THOMAS
BRADBURY
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sworn.
The prisoner was one of the men, delivered to me.
Was he amongst them that secured the arms? - I do not know, he was amongst the rest that went away.
JONATHAN
REDGRAVE
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sworn.
I apprehended him in Onslow-street, in company with the other two men, Thomas and Matthews.
PRISONER's DEFENCE.
I have nothing to say; my heart is quite broke.
GUILTY
,
Death
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Tried by the London Jury before Mr. DEPUTY RECORDER.