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Voyage
Transportation
Joseph Dawson was transported on the Lord Eldon, departing 31st Mar 1817 and arriving 30th Sep 1817 with 220 passengers.
Lord Eldon (generic)References
| Primary Source | Australian Joint Copying Project. Microfilm Roll 88, Class and Piece Number HO11/2, Page Number 331 (167) |
| 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
Old Bailey Proceedings Online (www.oldbaileyonline.org, version 8.0, 22 March 2020), January 1817, trial of JOSEPH DAWSON (t18170115-56). JOSEPH DAWSON, Violent Theft > highway robbery, 15th January 1817. 203. JOSEPH DAWSON was indicted, for feloniously asasulting John Frederick Gerlach , on the King's highway, on the 31st of December , putting him in fear, and taking from his person, and against his will, one watch, value 5l.; two gold seals, value 2l.; one watch-chain, value 3s.; and one key, value 1d. , his property. JOHN FREDERICK GERLACH . I am clerk to Mr. Hicks. About six o'clock in the evening of the 31st of December, I was at the corner of Jamaica-row, St. Luke's ; the prisoner came behind me, put his arm round me, and pulled out my watch; I turned round and called out, stop thief. Somebody came behind me, and laid hold of my arm, so that I could not pursue. About half an hour afterwards I saw the prisoner at the watch-house. Cross-examined by MR. ADOLPHUS. I saw him plainly; there were two shops and a lamp lit up. I am sure he is the man. ABRAHAM HEMMINGWAY . I am headborough of St. Luke's. I heard the cry, and stopped the prisoner within one hundred yards of the place, where the prosecutor was robbed; he was running. I took hold of him, and asked him what was the matter; he said, there had been a row, and that he wanted to get out of it; he struck me, and ran away. I took him again. I am sure he is the man that I first stopped. THOMAS VANN . I am an officer. I took the prisoner before the magistrate; before he got there, he asked me if the matter could be made up. I said, where is the watch; I made him neither threat or promise; he said, it is thrown into a little pool, in the middle of the ruins of the hospital. I found it there. (Property produced and sworn to.) Prisoner's Defence. The officer told me it would be better for me to tell; he said, the prosecutor was a good natured man, and would be merciful: he said, he had offered him 1l. if he would get the watch. HEMMINGWAY. I said I had found the man who had lost the watch, and that he was a very good kind of a man, and asked him where the watch was. GUILTY - DEATH . Aged 22. Second Middlesex Jury, before Mr. Justice Borrough. https://www.oldbaileyonline.org/print.jsp?div=t18170115-56