Isaac Knott

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Maureen Withey on 11th May 2025

Tasmanian Records. Indent:https://libraries.tas.gov.au/Digital/CON14-1-17/CON14-1-17P226 and https://libraries.tas.gov.au/Digital/CON14-1-17/CON14-1-17P227 No 7732. Isaac Knott. Age 30, Tried Norfolk Norwich G S, 9 March 1842, 10 years. Can neither read nor write. Married, 1 child. Offence: Breaking open a box & stg £8.0.0 from an inn at Cawston. Once for trespass, 14 days- assault, 6 months. but bailed after 1 month. Surgeon’s report, Well behaved. Ploughman & F. Labourer. Native place, Crownthorpe. Relations: W Charlotte at Beckenwood, F, Wm, M, Patience, B, Wm, Geo John. No S. All at Beckinwood.

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Maureen Withey on 11th May 2025

County Sessions.  Isaac Knott and George Butler were in stealing out of a box in the dwelling-house of Robt. Lilley, of Caston, ale-house keeper, one bank note for the payment of five pounds, the property of Robert Wright and others members  of a friendly society. Mr. defended Knott. one of the members of the club, proved that the money that the money named in the indictment was safe in the box on the 22nd of January last, and as usual was left in the custody of Mr. Lilley. Witness and William Nichols were stewards They had each a key of the outer box and the clerk had a key of the inner box kept within the large one in which the money was deposited. Robert Lilley proved that the last witness delivered the box to him about half-past nine the evening, and he gave it to his wife ;  he saw it in his bed-room when he went to bed; in the morning it was in the same place, and safe there till the Tuesday morning following. The evening previous the prisoners were at his louse and asked for lodgings,  with which they were accommodated, and also another person ot the name of Self; they retired about ten o'clock, and witness and his wife went to bed about halt-past eleven, and the box was then in the same place  safe and secure ; Witness got up next morning about half- past seven o'clock and his wife soon after ; Self was the next person who came down, he went with Witness to the stable  and afterwards breakfasted with him. Self was not out of the presence of witness  during the morning. The prisoners afterwards came down and had a pint of beer, and went away saying they must make haste for Lynn, About half an hour after this witness was going out and his wife went upstairs to get him a handkerchief, and discovered that the box was gone, were a few pieces broken off lying in the room ; witness gave information to his neighbours and went himself as far as Watton in search of the prisoners, but could not see anything of them. A description of the rooms was here given, and it seemed from one of the doors of the room in which they slept they had the opportunity of crossing a landing into the sleeping-room of  the witness; this door, however, was closed by an iron bar, but it was easy to lift it up by a knife being passed through a small aperture in the door; when witness went upstairs in the afternoon the iron bar was hanging down. Cross-examined.—Self was taken up for the robbery and the next day discharged by the Magistrates. Mary Lilley corroborated the testimony given by her husband; witness also stated that in making a search for the box she found it  in a dark room opened, the papers thrown about and the money away. Samuel Smith proved that the that the prisoners came to his father’s house in Caston, on the Monday He ing they slept at Lilley’s, and had refreshment  saw the prisoners at Norwich afterwards and asked Knott if he ever was at Caston ; he said he did not know such a place. Cross-examined .— he prisoners had asked for lodgings at his father’s house, but they could not be accommodated ; they then left and went to the Lion. Mr. Evans made an able speech to the Jury on behalf of the prisoners  contending that a … was only one of suspicion, and the …. from bringing it home to the prisoners  entitled to a verdict of not guilty. The learned Recorder remarked upon the ... to the Jury for way in which the case had been put in the case to the defence, but if they saw nothing to induce  them to think that Self had committed the then it seemed that there were no other robbery, parties upon whom could fall  but the prisoners, and they would direct their attention to them. The circumstances affecting  the prisoners, and the Chairman then went through, the Jury after a short consultation found both the prisoners guilty. Knott, against whom there was another indictment for stealing hay, but upon which no case was offered, ten years transportation. Butler to 12 mouths’ imprisonment . Norfolk Chronicle, 12 March 1842. NORFOLK SESSIONS. At the Norfolk Sessions… , on Wednesday and Thursday last, Isaac Knott, aged ? and Butler, aged 19 charged with stealing, on the ?th January last, a pounds. six shillings, and one penny, and two from a box deposited at the house of Robert Lilley Red Lion, Caston, the property of Robert Wright and others, …. Bury and Norwich Post, 16 March 1842.

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john knott on 11th May 2025

age 32 transported for 10 years for larceny