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Voyage
Transportation
James Balls was transported on the Malabar, departing 14th Jun 1819 and arriving 30th Oct 1819 with 172 passengers.
Malabar (generic)References
| Primary Source | Australian Joint Copying Project. Microfilm Roll 88, Class and Piece Number HO11/3, Page Number 182 |
| Source Description | This record is one of the entries in the British convict transportation registers 1787-1867 database compiled by State Library of Queensland from British Home Office (HO) records which are available on microfilm as part of the Australian Joint Copying Pro |
| Original Source | Great Britain. Home Office |
| Compiled By | State Library of Queensland |
| Database Source | British convict transportation registers 1787-1867 database |
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Convict Notes
Thetford Assizes. Samuel Pile, aged ?, William Culling, aged 66, and James Balls, aged 20, stood severally charged with committing robbery the promises of Mr. J. Redgrave. The prosecutor, shopman and tailor, at Saxlingham. the night the 22nd of October last, the middle of the night, (after making all his doors secure before went to bed), was awakened a noise underneath his chamber, he went down stairs, to ascertain what had occasioned it, but perceiving nothing returned; he had not remained above quarter of an hour before heard the same noise again. looking out his window and not seeing any one, went to bed again. At five o'clock the next morning rose, and going down stairs found the pantry window taken out, and back door, the shop door, and also the bureau, had been broken open, and five 5/ notes and twenty-two 1/. notes taken out of the latter, besides yards of dulncld and other articles which were missing from the shop. The prisoners being suspected, the house of Cubing and Pile, who lodged together, was searched, where the greatest part of the articles taken from the shop was discovered concealed nearly two feet below the surface the earth, out-house, together with iron bar and two chissels. It is remarkable ,that one of these chissels had a gapped edge, which was tbe same as had been applied to force the door open, therefore it had left corresponding gaps where it was used, which was proved upon comparing them. Upon Balls, the other prisoner, being searched at his lodgiags, in Norwich, four of the 5/. notes were found upon him: the prosecutor swore to one of them from a particular mark indorsed one corner it and to chief the goods. There being no doubt the prisoners having committed the robbery, Jury found all of them Guilty. Norfolk Chronicle, 3 April 1819.