Old Bailey Proceedings:
Old Bailey Proceedings: Accounts of Criminal Trials

10th September 1783

About this dataset

Currently Held: Harvard University Library

LL ref: t17830910-26




621. JOSEPH PENTECROSS proceedingsdefend was indicted for returning from transportation, and being found at large, without any lawful cause .

(The Record read as before.)

JOHN OWEN < no role > sworn.

I recollect the prisoner, he was sentenced to be transported.

RICHARD TAYLOR < no role > sworn.

I recollect the prisoner, he was one of the five I took, I apprehended him at Hawksworth in company with White.

Did he make any resistance? - None, he behaved as decently and as civily as people in that situation could: they stopped immediately, and gave themselves up, and confessed before the Justice, that they were such people.

THOMAS BRADBURY < no role > This name instance is in a workspace. sworn.

Was the prisoner amongst those that you had to transport? - Yes.

Did he take any extraordinary active part in procuring the arms, or seizing the ship? - I do not recollect he did.

GUILTY Death .

[Pardon on condition of Transportation. See summary.]




View as XML