Old Bailey Proceedings:
Old Bailey Proceedings: Accounts of Criminal Trials
8th December 1784
ERRATA.
In the first Trial of
Richard
Smith
< no role >
, for Guilty, read, Not Guilty.
In the second Trial of ditto, for Guilty, read, Guilty, Death.
In the Trial of
Edward
Garth
< no role > This name instance is in set 309.
, for Guilty, read, Guilty, Death.
In the Trial of
Richard
Hobson
< no role >
, for Guilty, read, Guilty, Death.
The Sessions being ended, the Court proceeded to give Judgment as follows:
Received sentence of death, 31.
James
Dunn
< no role >
,
John
Evans
< no role >
,
George
Robinson
< no role >
,
James
Hamilton
< no role >
,
William
Stewart
< no role >
,
William
Astell
< no role >
,
William
Giles
< no role >
,
Philip
Patch
< no role >
,
Henry
Rutter
< no role >
,
Allen
Williams
< no role >
,
Thomas
Tabbs
< no role >
,
George
Harris
< no role >
,
John
Shaw
< no role >
,
Thomas
Buttledoze
< no role >
,
John
Moody
< no role >
,
Richard
Smith
< no role >
,
Thomas
Cale
< no role >
,
George
Goldsmith
< no role >
, Laurence Hall,
John
Jones
< no role >
,
Richard
Hobson
< no role >
,
William
Finder
< no role >
,
William
Abbott
< no role >
,
John
Kelsey
< no role >
,
William
Benton
< no role >
,
Melvin
Simmons
< no role >
,
Edward
Garth
< no role > This name instance is in set 309.
,
James
Smith
< no role >
,
Ferdinand
Dowland
< no role >
,
Samuel
Warner
< no role >
, and
Edward
Johnson
< no role >
.
To be transported for fourteen years, 1.
Elizabeth
Colley
< no role >
.
To be transported for seven years, 39.
Charles
Stone
< no role >
,
Andrew
Simms
< no role >
,
John
Jeff
< no role >
,
William
Smart
< no role >
,
Joseph
Davis
< no role >
,
John
< no role >
M'Gowan,
William
Cox
< no role >
,
Alexander
< no role >
M'Donald,
Thomas
Watson
< no role >
,
James
Davis
< no role >
,
James
Thomas
< no role >
,
Isaac
Warren
< no role >
,
John
Cashon
< no role >
, William Hall,
Benjamin
Ingram
< no role >
,
Thomas
Wale
< no role >
,
Luke
Rogers
< no role >
,
William
Gilbert
< no role >
,
Edward
Humphreys
< no role >
,
Michael
Sullivan
< no role >
,
George
Francisco
< no role >
,
Edward
Brett
< no role >
, Israel Silcock,
Mary
Bramham
< no role >
,
Robert
Jones
< no role >
,
Benjamin
West
< no role >
,
James
Hobbs
< no role >
,
Charles
Medley
< no role >
,
Catherine
Hart
< no role > This name instance is in a workspace.
,
Nicholas
Greenwell
< no role >
,
Robert
Freeman
< no role >
,
Dennis
Hayes
< no role >
,
Jonathan
Payne
< no role >
,
William
Bacot
< no role >
,
Isaac
Dukes
< no role >
,
George
Newton
< no role >
,
William
Thomas
< no role >
,
Thomas
Clar
< no role >
ke, and
Nicholas
English
< no role >
.
To be imprisoned in Newgate two years, 1.
Margaret
Small
< no role >
.
To be confined to hard labour twelve months in the House of Correction, 3.
William
Nobes
< no role >
,
Mary
Horton
< no role >
, and
Margaret
Murphy
< no role >
.
To be confined to hard labour six months in the House of Correction, 8.
Thomas
Bolton
< no role >
,
Richard
Brady
< no role >
,
William
Wills
< no role >
,
William
Smith
< no role >
,
Lara
Israel
< no role >
,
Elizabeth
Burley
< no role >
,
Mary
Birch
< no role >
, and
Elizabeth
Pritchard
< no role >
.
To be imprisoned three months in Newgate, 1.
Hannah
Trotter
< no role >
.
To be publickly whipped, 25.
Abraham
Slater
< no role >
,
William
Jackson
< no role >
,
John
Bryant
< no role >
,
Edward
Craker
< no role >
,
William
Walls
< no role >
,
James
Lee
< no role >
,
John
Fullman
< no role >
,
John
Bime
< no role >
,
George
Varlow
< no role >
,
Charles
Howard
< no role >
,
William
Cooper
< no role >
,
John
Morgan
< no role >
,
John
Lipper
< no role >
,
Thomas
< no role >
M'Cann,
Isaac
Dupree
< no role >
,
James
Coates
< no role >
,
John
How
< no role >
,
James
Cook
< no role >
,
William
Wild
< no role >
,
William
How
< no role >
,
Edward
Wright
< no role >
,
John
Halway
< no role >
,
John
Evans
< no role >
,
James
Matthews
< no role >
, and
John
Taylor
< no role >
.
To be fined one shilling, 6.
John
Grattan
< no role >
,
Ann
Petrie
< no role >
, Samuel Lane,
Elizabeth
Brown
< no role >
,
James
Brotherton
< no role >
, and
Joel
Abrahams
< no role >
.
To be fined sixpence, 1.
Robert
Jones
< no role >
.
Richard
Marsh
proceedingsdefend
was called to the bar, and informed by the Court, that his case was reserved till the opinion of the twelve Judges on the case of Humphry Moore was declared, as it was governed by that, being exactly similar, and there was no ground, either in fact or law, for drawing any distinction between them; and the Judges having declared their opinion, that the case of Moore amounted to a felonious stealing, the sentence of the Court upon him the said
Richard
Marsh
< no role >
was, to be
transported for seven years
.
John
Westwood
< no role >
was ordered to remain till next Sessions.
Hickman and Dias to remain on their former order.
Robert
Abel
proceedingsdefend This name instance is in set 1426.
, capitally convicted at a former Sessions, received his Majesty's pardon, upon condition of being transported for seven years.
John
Ruglass
< no role >
, a transport to the coast of Africa, who had been found at large, was set to the bar, and confessed he was the man that had received his Majesty's pardon, on condition of being so transported; but alledged, that Governor Lacey, the Governor of the island, sent them off, and would not give them any victuals: he was ordered to remain under under his former sentence, and told he must represent his case to the King, and apply to him for mercy.