Francis Full

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D Wong on 26th August 2017

Old Bailey: FRANCIS FULL, Theft > simple larceny, 28th October 1830. Offence: Theft > simple larceny Verdict: Guilty Punishment: Transportation FRANCIS FULL was indicted for stealing, on the 19th of October, 15 handkerchiefs, value 3l., the goods of Richard Ensoll. MARY ENSOLL. I am the wife of Richard Ensoll, a hosier , who lives in Middle-row, Holborn. The prisoner came there on the 19th of October, and asked for some stockings - I showed him some, and while I was attending to him he took some handkerchiefs off the counter; I did not see him take them, as I had to get the stockings - I then saw them in his hat; before he came in I had put them near the end of the counter - I took hold of his coat, and called Stop thief! some person fetched an officer - he had not left the shop, and hardly moved from the counter - there were fifteen handkerchiefs found in his hat; he tried to get away - I did not see him put them into the hat. FREDERICK JOHNSON . I am an officer. I was on duty and saw a crowd round the door - I saw the prisoner with one hand hold of his hat; the lady had hold of it likewise, and with her other hand she had hold of his collar - I took the hat and him to the watch-house, and found these handkerchiefs in it.(Property produced and sworn to.) Prisoner's Defence (written.) I had been making freely with my friend, and drinking rather too much, owing to his going into the country; not being used to drink, it took an effect on me, and returning home I went into a shop in Middle-row, Holborn, to purchase a pair of stockings - there was a quantity of handkerchiefs on the counter, and I took some of them up to look at them; I put them on the top of my hat, and they accidentally fell in - my hat was off, and laying on the counter; the prosecutrix, turning round with the stockings that I asked her for, and, seeing the handkerchiefs in my hat, accuses me of taking them with the intent to rob her - at which I was amazed, and gave her my hat with the handkerchiefs in it. GUILTY. Aged 19. - Transported for Seven Years. Francis was listed as being 21 years old on arrival in VDL. He was 5'2¾" tall, pale complexion, reddish brown hair, grey eyes, single. Occupation: House Lad and groom. 1833 Muster: Gaol 27/9/1833: The Hobart Town Courier: Absconded and apprehended. 8/10/1833 The Colonist, Hobart: Monday, Octouer 7. Thomas Anson, Edward Bream, Francis Full, Henry Dixon, and George Rolfe, were capitally indicted for a burglary and robbery, at New Norfolk, to which indictment they severally pleaded guilty. They were subsequently brought up for judgment, and the extreme sentence of the law passed on them, with an intimation that on some it would take its course. — The prisoners are all youths, under twenty years of age. 1835 Muster: Transported to Port Arthur. Oct. 1841: TOL Dec. 1846: CP