James Franks

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Maureen Withey on 22nd January 2023

NSW Convict Imdex. Mary Millett, per Elizabeth, 1836, Certificate of freedom, 1 Sep 1843. No 43/1424. Remarks: TL. 42/3361; wife of James Franks, per Lord Eldon, (1817) (as stated on the CF).

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Ron Garbutt on 22nd March 2020

Old Bailey Proceedings Online (www.oldbaileyonline.org, version 8.0, 22 March 2020), December 1816, trial of STEPHEN BROOK JAMES FRANKS (t18161204-75). STEPHEN BROOK, JAMES FRANKS, Theft > burglary, 4th December 1816. 79. STEPHEN BROOK , and JAMES FRANKS , were indicted for burglariously breaking and entering the dwelling-house of Eliza Robertson , about twelve o'clock, on the night of the 4th of November , with intent to steal, and stealing therein, eight tea-spoons, value 18s.; two salt-spoons, value 4s.; one pair of sugar-tongs, value 6s.; two pair of stockings, value 4s.; one pair of boots, value 1s.; one pelisse, value 1l.; one pillow-case, value 1s.; one pint of brandy; value 3s.; one quart of gin, value 2s.; one quart of peppermint, value 2s.; three decanters, value 6s.; one quart of rum, value 3s.; three bottles, value 6d.; and fifteen shillings in copper , goods and monies of the said Eliza Robertson . ELIZA ROBERTSON. I am a widow . I live in Whitechapel-road ; I keep the Duke of Cumberland public-house . My house was broken open on the 5th of November; a hole was made through a nine-inch wall into the bar. I lost the articles mentioned in the indictment. I have seen some of them since; the pelisse is well worth 1l. HENRY JACOBS . I produce a pair of sugar tongs, one pair of salt-spoons, and two odd spoons. EBENEZER DALTON . I produce a pair of child's boots. ELIZA ROBERTSON . They are all mine. HENRY JACOBS . I am a clothes-salesman, and live in Rosemary-lane. The two prisoners came to my shop between one and two o'clock in the day, on the 5th of November, and offered the silver articles for sale. Brook was the man that offered them. I asked him where he got them; he said he had brought them from abroad. I told him I did not think that they were his. He said they are mine, if you will not buy them, give them back to me. I refused, and he told me to send for an officer. He could not have gone away without jumping over the door; I do not think he attempted it. I went for the officer, and left them in charge of my wife and man. The articles are worth thirty shillings. ELIZA ROBERTSON re-examined. When did you perceive the hole in the wall - A. After six in the morning of the 5th; it was neither dark nor light. Lucy Cason was up before me. When I went to bed the wainscoat was quite secure. The next morning it was broken down with the wall. I had seen the things after twelve o'clock at night. LUCY CASON . I live with Mrs. Robertson. I got up after six o'clock in the morning; it was not light; the day had began to break. I was going to open the street door, and saw the hole in the wall. EBENEZE DALTON. I am a police officer. I searched the prisoners, and found the boots, one shilling and two-pence three-farthings, in farthings, and ten-pence halfpenny, in penny-pieces and halfpence, and two children's thimbles on Brooks; and on Franks I found one shilling and sixpence, in halfpence, and four-pence halfpenny, in farthings and penny-pieces. Brooks said, that he bought the boots in Petticoat-lane, for his little brother, and gave sixpence for them. Franks said, he found his things at the backof the hospital in Whitechapel-road. I found a chisel in the bar of the house. Court to MRS. ROBERTSON. Did you lose any thimbles - A. I cannot say; my children have thimbles. Q. Had you as much as two shillings in farthings - A. I had. Brooks Defence. On the 5th of November I was coming from Stepney, and fell in with this boy. We were talking together, and he blacked my face in the fields. I had a stick in my hand, and I pushed it into the ground to get up a turf to heave at him, and I rose the spoons up. They were buried in the ground. I went to Petticoat-lane, and bought the boots; they gave me the farthings in change. As I was going down Rosemary-lane I saw a boy, who asked me if I had any thing to sell; I gave him the spoons, and they sent for an officer. BROOKS - GUILTY . - DEATH . Aged 15. FRANKS - GUILTY . - DEATH . Aged 16. First Middlesex Jury, before Mr. Baron Richards . https://www.oldbaileyonline.org/print.jsp?div=t18161204-75