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Maureen Withey on 30th October 2021

Old Bailey Proceedings Online (www.oldbaileyonline.org, version 8.0, 30 October 2021), December 1815, trial of THOMAS COLE (t18151206-10). THOMAS COLE, Theft > animal theft, 6th December 1815. 10. THOMAS COLE was indicted for stealing, on the 31st of October , three pigs, value 5l. the property of John Marr . JOHN MARR . I am a labouring man . I live at Eastham, in the County of Essex . I lost three pigs out of my sty on the night of the 30th of October. JOHN BOWLER . I keep a chandler's shop. On the 30th of October, between two and three in the morning, I saw two men driving three pigs. At first I was not sure they were pigs, it was so dark. The pigs laid themselves down in the Kennel. I stopped the prisoner, and the other man ran away. I questioned the prisoner a good deal, where he was going; and he said he was going to market at Cow Cross. I told him there was no market that morning. He said that the little pig belonged to him, and that the other two belonged to the other man. Then I said to him that he must give a better account, and when I got near enough to him I seized him. I called the watchman, and he was taken to Bishopsgate watch-house. I gave the pigs up to the officer of the night, and he kept them in his cellar. JOHN HARVEY . I am the officer of the night, and have had the pigs in my possession ever since. I kept them in my cellar. The prosecutor has seen them, and says they are his. John Man . I have seen the pigs, and know them to be mine. Prisoner's Defence. I am a poor labouring man , and was coming along the road to London, and was accosted by a man who said he would give me a shilling and half a gallon of beer to drive his pigs to London. I bought one of the pigs from him, going along; and when we were stopped in London, he ran away. GUILTY, aged 24. Transported for Seven Years. London Jury, before Mr. Recorder. ----------------------------------------------------- Tasmanian Record https://librariestas.ent.sirsidynix.net.au/client/en_AU/tas/search/detailnonmodal/ent:$002f$002fARCHIVES_DIGITISED$002f0$002fARCHIVES_DIG_DIX:CON13-1-1/one CON13-1-1 Image 210 List of Sixty male convicts embarked on H.M. Brig Prince Leopold for the Public service in Van Diemen’s Land, with their sentences of Transportation duly extracted from the Indents, and Descriptions as taken on the Muster at arrival in New South Wales. Secretary’s Office, Sydney. 5 March 1819. Thomas Cole, per Batavia, Tried London G. D., 6 Dec 1815, Seven years, Mason’s servant, 4 ft 11½ height, hazel eyes, black hair, dk sallow complexion. General remarks, Well behaved.