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Crime
Transportation
Richard Crooks was transported on the Neptune, departing 30th Nov 1817 and arriving 5th May 1818 with 169 passengers.
NeptuneReferences
| Primary Source | Australian Joint Copying Project. Microfilm Roll 88, Class and Piece Number HO11/2, Page Number 415 (209) |
| 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
1833 - 1 December. Ticket of Leave. No; 33/959 Allowed to remain in the district of Bathurst 1841 - 1 July. Conditional Pardon Possible Death Record New South Wales, Australia, Convict Death Register Names; Crooks. Ship; Neptune. Aged; 44 years old. Died; 1 April 1842. Bathurst Hospital
ld Bailey Proceedings Online (www.oldbaileyonline.org, version 8.0, 08 September 2021), October 1817, trial of RICHARD CROOKS CLEMENT BART-LETT (t18171029-47). RICHARD CROOKS, CLEMENT BART-LETT, Theft > pocketpicking, 29th October 1817. 1479. RICHARD CROOKS and CLEMENT BART-LETT were indicted for stealing, on the 8th of October , one handkerchief, value 7s., the goods of William Dickinson , from his person . MR. WILLIAM DICKINSON. I am a surgeon . On the 8th of October, about eight o'clock in the evening, I was going down Ludgate-hill , with my sister, the officer touched my shoulder, and said my pocket was picked, I immediately missed my handkerchief, and described it to him. I went into St. Paul's Church-yard with him, he pointed out the two prisoners, and said they were the men, I seized one and he the other, and we took them into a house, and searched them - They denied having it - We found it on Crooks. I gave them in charge. JOHN CARLISLE. I am an officer. On the 8th of October I was coming down Fleet-street, from Temple-bar, and observed the prisoners following several gentlemen, and feeling their pockets; they went as far as Fleet-market, returned again nearly as far as Chancery-lane, and then went down Fleet-street again; I missed them just by Fleet-market for half an hour; I watched about Ludgate-hill, and saw them behind the prosecutor, who was with a lady, just by St. Paul's Church-yard, Bartlett lifted his pocket up, went a little farther, and pulled the handkerchlef about five inches out, just by Ludgate church, Crooks took it quite out and ran across the way. I told the prosecutor, and desired him to return with me to look for them-they had gone towards St. Pauls. We came up with them in St. Paul's Church-yard, laid hold of them, and took them into a public-house, searched them, and found the handkerchief at the back part of Crooks' breeches. The prosecutor described it before he saw it. (Property produced and sworn to.) CROOKS' Defence. I picked it up on Holborn-hill; it slipped out of my pocket into my breeches. BARTLETT'S Defence. I know nothing of the other prisoner. CROOKS - GUILTY . Aged 22. BARTLETT - GUILTY . Aged 22. Transported for Life . London Jury, before Mr. Recorder.