Old Bailey Proceedings:
Old Bailey Proceedings: Accounts of Criminal Trials
10th September 1783
613.
JOHN
WELCH
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was indicted for
returning from transportation, and being found at large, on the 1st of September
last
, without any lawful cause.
(The Record read as before.)
JOHN
OWEN
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sworn.
Court. Look at the prisoner, do you recollect his being here before? - Yes, in September sessions, 1782.
What was he than indicted and convicted for? - Stealing pots and coppers.
ROBERT
CLARKE
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sworn.
I apprehended the prisoner, near Tunbridge, he behaved very quiet indeed.
THOMAS
BRADBURY
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sworn.
Do you recollect the prisoner among those convicts? - Yes.
How did he behave? - Very well, as far as I saw.
He did not take an active part, in securing the arms? - Not that I saw.
PRISONER's DEFENCE.
I am guilty of what is laid to my charge, in returning from the ship, it is now fourteen months since I went on board, I dare say Mr. Akerman will give me a character.
GUILTY
,
Death
.
[Pardon on condition of Transportation. See summary.]