Old Bailey Proceedings:
Old Bailey Proceedings: Accounts of Criminal Trials
10th September 1783
622.
GEORGE
NASH
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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.
I recollect the prisoner, he was tried in April sessions last.
Are you sure of that? - I am positive of it.
RICHARD
TAYLOR
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sworn.
I apprehended the prisoner with the other two at the same parish of Hawkhurst
.
Did he make any resistance? - None.
He behaved quietly and soberly? - Yes.
Who was he in company with? - Dickson and Gaffney, White and Pentecross were together.
THOMAS
BRADBURY
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sworn.
The prisoner was amongst those I had to transport.
What part did he take in this business? - I do not remember any particular part.
He was not one of the ring-leaders? - Oh! no, my Lord.
He was not guilty of any act of violence? - No.
GUILTY
Death
.
These Six were tried by the London Jury before Mr. DEPUTY RECORDER.
[Pardon on condition of Transportation. See summary.]