Thomas Hill

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Sheryl on 28th November 2025

Prisoner Discharged from HM Gaols & Houses of Corrections, Hobart & Launceston, weeks ending 3 Aug & 7 Aug 1872. Thomas Hill, per Woodman, tried at S.C. Hobart, 15 Sept 1868, for breaking into a store, etc, served 5 years, native of London, 66 yrs, 5 feet 9 inches, grey hair, C.P., residue sentence remitted. Tasmania Police Gazette, 9th Aug 1872, p132.

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Penny-Lyn Beale on 27th July 2025

1868 - Trial; Hobart Town -15 September 1868. Offence; Breaking into a store. Sentence; 5 years 1881 - General Hospital Hobart Admission dates: 09 Dec 1880 Ship: Woodman Place of origin: London Date of death: 19 Jan 1881. Date of burial: 21 Jan 1881 Cause of death; Enlarged Spleen, Anthemia

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Maureen Withey on 3rd July 2021

Old Bailey Proceedings Online (www.oldbaileyonline.org, version 8.0, 03 July 2021), June 1825, trial of THOMAS HILL (t18250630-1). THOMAS HILL, Theft > burglary, 30th June 1825. Middlesex Cases, First Jury. Before Mr. Justice Burrough. 1051. THOMAS HILL was indicted for burglariously breaking and entering the dwelling-house of Richard Sergeant , about twelve o'clock in the night of the 21st of March , at St. Leonard, Shoreditch, with intent to steal, and stealing therein twelve live tame fowls, price 24 s., and three live tame ducks, price 6 s. , his property. RICHARD SERGEANT. I live at Hoxton, in the parish of St. Leonard, Shoreditch . On the night of the 21st of March I went to bed about eleven o'clock, and was the last person up. Next morning, about half-past seven o'clock, I got up, and found the hinges broken off the small door of the hen house, which was fastened the night before - it is in the garden, at a little distance from the house, but is enclosed with it; the garden is surrounded by a wall on two sides, and a fence on the other. I missed twelve fowls and three ducks. On the morning of the 23d I found two of my fowls, dead, at Norris's, at Hoxton - I knew them directly; White had them: I have no doubt of their being mine. One was an old blue and white hen; the other a very dark cock. I am very positive of them. THOMAS WHITE . I am servant to Norris. On the 22d of March, about five o'clock in the morning, I came to my master's premises, to work, and saw Hill laying on some straw in the cart-shed - he told me he had been there since three o'clock, as his mother had locked him out; I told him to be off about his business: I then went and milked my cows, and in about an hour I went to put up the straw which he had pulled down, where he had been laying, and found two fowls - I carried them into the stable, to the carters, and while we were looking at them the prisoner came back, and said, "Those two fowls belong to me;" he saw them in my hand: I gave them into his hand; he said, "No, you may keep them, for I have twelve or fourteen more in my mother's privy." I took them into my master's house, and about ten o'clock at night I heard of this robbery - Sergeant came to me next morning, and owned them; the hen was dark, and the other a very light one; he left them with me to see if I could find the prisoner - I had known him for six months; he was not found for two months: I went to his mother's about an hour after he went away - I got over a wall, and saw several fowls and three ducks in his mother's privy - there might be twelve or thirteen; I do not know what became of them. JOHN WILMOT . I apprehended the prisoner on the 14th of May, on another charge, at his mother's house. RICHARD SERGEANT re-examined. It was just light, about half-past seven o'clock, when I got up. I saw the fowls in possession of White - they were mine. Prisoner's Defence. I work in Mr. Rhodes's brickfield. I got up early in the morning, and saw two fowls laying in the cart, and took them home, and put them by the straw. I afterwards saw them in this man's hand, and said they were mine - that I had found them in Mr. Farmer's cart - he said I should not have them. GUILTY - DEATH . Aged 17. -------------------------------------------------- National Archives. Criminal Petition. HO 17/15/1341825 Prisoner name: Thomas Hill. Court and date of trial: Old Bailey Sessions 1825. Crime: Breaking and entering into property of Mr Sergeant and stealing a quantity of poultry. Initial sentence: Death. Annotated (Outcome): Considered at Report in Council 2 August 1825. Petitioner(s): Mary Hill, prisoner's mother of Hoxton, Middlesex, and 38 inhabitants of London. Grounds for clemency (Petition Details): Contrite; wishes to restore good character; distressed mother.