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John Hopkins was transported on the Phoenix, departing 29th Aug 1826 and arriving 25th Dec 1826 with 191 passengers.
Built at Thames, England 1798. 589 tons.
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Died; 6 July 1859. Noted in the Liverpool Asylum Register for the Infirm & Destitute. Name; John Hopkins. Age; 62. Ship; Phoenix [25] DIED
Before the Recorder and Aldermen M Kenny and Drury Jones. John Hopkins was indicted for stealing two gold pins and some other articles of a value laid in the indictment, the property of Mr . Peter Keogh. It appeared from the evidence of Mr. Keane, a grocer, residing in Capel-street, as well as from the testimony of the man and woman of the that one day some weeks since, the prisoner rapped at the door, to enquire for lodgings. “ double rap,” and assumed all the airs of a person of respectability. After being shewn through the apartments, he fixed upon certain rooms that appeared to answer his wants. Prisoner enquired what rent was expected for them, and the maid servant answered that she could not tell without consulting her master, for which purpose she went down stairs, and on her return after making the enquiry, being absent not more than two minutes, she met the prisoner, who was then going away. She told him him the result of her enquiries, and he seemed quite and said he would call again in the evening, with the man for whom he was seeking for lodgings, to sure finally for them. Prisoner then went away. The female witness deposed that on her going up to the rooms in which the prisoner had been in she found that the subject of the prosecution, which lay on a dressing table in one of them and which she saw in the room when she entered it with the prisoner, were gone, Information was then given at the Head Police Office of the occurrence. Cannon, a Policeman, deposed, that on the night after the theft he was patroling, and went into a house of bad repute off Sackville-street, when he found the prisoner surrounded. by a number women. There were also two respectable gentlemen of the party, who, on witness entering the house, asked if prisoner was a peace officer, to which witnesses replied in the negative. The gentlemen then charged the prisoner with having entered the house under the pretext of being a peace officer and for Witness the purpose of extorting money from them. took prisoner to the police office, and on comparing him with the description given by Mr. Keane, discovered that he was the person who had stolen the articles in question.- Mr. Keane and his servants identified the prisoner as the man who had been at the house. The prisoner called no witnesses, but he cross- examined the witnesses for the prosecution with a good deal of composure. It appeared that he had been for some years really on the establishment, and relinquished his situation to accept an employment from Latouche, Esq. The Recorder charged the Jury minutely, who at once returned a verdict of guilty. The Recorder addressed the prisoner, and said that the offence of which he had been found guilty was a very foul transgression ; it was bottomed on and its entire management evinced a roguery that could not be permitted to escape with a if such transactions slight visitation of punishment. were not to be marked with the heavy penalties of the law, no kind of property would be secure, inasmach as no foresight could guard against such a mode of theft. After some other suitable observations his Lordship sentenced the prisoner to be transported for seven years. Dublin Morning Register, 1 May 1826.
Irish Convict Database by Peter Mayberry. John Hopkins, age on arrival, 29, per Phoenix III (1826) Tried at Dublin, 1826, 7 years for Stealing jewellery. 2 former convictions. DOB, 1797. Native place, Meath. Widower, 1 child. Protestant. Trade, Police constable.