Old Bailey Proceedings:
Old Bailey Proceedings: Accounts of Criminal Trials
10th September 1783
621.
JOSEPH
PENTECROSS
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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
OWEN
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sworn.
I recollect the prisoner, he was sentenced to be transported.
RICHARD
TAYLOR
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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
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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
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[Pardon on condition of Transportation. See summary.]