Daniel Evans

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D Wong on 28th May 2020

DANIEL EVANS. Theft: theft from a specified place. 12th April 1820 Verdict Guilty Sentence Death DANIEL EVANS was indicted for stealing, on the 27th of March, at St. Pancras, six spoons, value 2 l., and three silver forks, value 30 s., the property of Richard Bligh , in his dwelling-house. JOHN WILDMAN PAINE. I am servant to Richard Bligh, Esq., who lives at No. 6, Tavistock-place, St. Pancras. On the 27th of March, about four o'clock in the afternoon, the prisoner came to the house with a pair of shoes for Mrs. Bligh. He said he brought them from Mr. Perkins, Red Lion-street, he waited on the mat of the passage to know if they would fit, while I took them up stairs - my mistress said they were not for her, and I brought them down. He appeared to be standing in the same place - I was not absent three minutes. I gave him the shoes, and said they were not for us; he said it was a mistake, and he would go back and see where it was. I let him out, and in coming across the hall, nearly at the top of the kitchen stairs, I turned my eye, and saw the parlour door open - I thought I had not left it open; the cloth was laid for dinner. I went in and missed six desert spoons and three silver forks from the sideboard, which I had put there about a quarter of an hour before. Nobody else had been in the passage or dining-room during that time. I immediately ran out down a street, but did not see him. I ran to the end of Tavistock-place, and saw him running slowly down Wooburn-place. I called Stop thief, he ran faster down Bernard-street, and was stopped in Little Guildford-street, taken to the watch-house, and the property found on him in my presence, under his waistcoat, and in his breeches. JAMES SMITH. I am an officer of St. Pancras. On the 27th of March, between four and five o'clock in the afternoon, the prisoner was brought to the watch-house. I attempted to search him, but he pulled the spoons and forks from between his breeches and shirt, saying he would give them up. SAMUEL GRANGER. I was going along Bernard-street, and heard the cry of Stop thief, the prisoner ran by and I stopped him, Paine was pursuing him. MR. BLIGH. The property is mine, and cost about 8 l. (Property produced and sworn to.) Prisoner. I can say nothing. GUILTY. - DEATH. Aged 45. Daniel Evans was 45, b 1775 according to his trial records. Tasmanian records list him as 60 years old on arrival, born 1760. Daniel was 5'1" tall, grey hair and eyes, Wife and 1 child at High Street, Marylebone (with Wilco(x)). 3/8/1829: Newspaper date: TOL (does not state which ship). 16/1/1830: Had TOL 28/2/1833: CP Possible death: 12/9/1840 - Daniel Evans, aged 72, died of Debility at the New Norfolk Hospital, Tas. Date of birth would be 1768.