Moses Martin

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Penny-Lyn Beale on 7th May 2021

New South Wales and Tasmania, Australia Convict Musters, Tasmania. 1826 No; 157 Name; Moses Martin Ship arrived by; Isabella To whom assigned; ABSCONDED [No date] 1833- New South Wales and Tasmania, Australia Convict Musters, Tasmania. still noted as - ABSCONDED

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Maureen Withey on 15th November 2019

Old Bailey Proceedings Online (www.oldbaileyonline.org, version 8.0, 15 November 2019), October 1817, trial of THOMAS DALTRY THOMAS RULE MOSES MARTIN MICHAEL HURLEY JOSEPH NEWTON (t18171029-41). THOMAS DALTRY, THOMAS RULE, MOSES MARTIN, MICHAEL HURLEY, JOSEPH NEWTON, Violent Theft > highway robbery, 29th October 1817. 1473. THOMAS DALTRY , THOMAS RULE , MOSES MARTIN , MICHAEL HURLEY , and JOSEPH NEWTON were indicted for feloniously assaulting John Thwaites , on the King's highway, on the 13th of October , in the parish of St. Mary Matfelon, alias Whitechapel, putting him in fear, and taking from his person, and against his will, one watch, value 5l. , his property. JOHN THWAITES. I am an innkeeper , and live at Holloway. On the 13th of October I was returning from Stepney, through Whitechapel, I was opposite Petticoat-lane, in Whitechapel , at seven o'clock in the evening; I was stopped by five or six persons-one took hold of one arm and another of the other, and a third was behind me; they gave me a quick turn towards Petticoat-lane; another put his knee to my back, to force me forward, and render it easier for them to take my watch; another man came down the lane, and took my watch very gently out of my pocket-it was silver, with a ribbon and key. They all ran away. I saw the watchman immediately after, and he asked me if I had been robbed? - he was about three yards from me. I told him he had seen it, and ought to have gone after them; he said he had not seen it. Court. Q. Did you know any of the prisoners - A. I had seen Daltry before; it was he that came down the lane, and took my watch out of my pocket. Q. Are you enabled to speak with certainty to him - A. It was seven o'clock. There was a strong gas-lamp at the corner, I saw him plainly; I saw him at the office three days after the robbery, and pointed him out-the prisoner, Martin, was another of them; he came up the lane after I had been robbed, and asked me if I had been robbed? I told him he knew it. I had seen them standing together before I came up to them, he was one of them. Q. Did you not take hold of him - A. I was afraid of being ill used, as I had a great deal more property about me; the watchman had gone away before this. I had seen four of them standing together under the lamp before I was robbed. I believe the four other prisoners to be the men who robbed me. Cross-examined by MR. PLATT. The watchman was discharged. I never said it was ten o'clock at night, or any other time than seven. It did not last more than two minutes. The watchman went on his beat; he was nearly under the lamp; the robbery was in the middle of the pavement, about four feet from the lamp. The men immediately ran up Whitechapel-the man who took the watch ran up the lane. I saw them again the same evening. Q. When you saw them afterwards you did not like to go near them - A. No, I walked away. There might only have been five of them. Q. When did you first see either of them after that night - A. On the 20th, at twelve o'clock. I was sent for-there were seven of them; I picked the five prisoners out from the seven. I am sure they are the men; I knew their faces. I know nothing of a reward. Q. Do you not know there is 200l. to be paid if the men are convicted - A. I do not. I should be sorry to receive it. Q. Who laid hold of your right or left arm - A. The prisoner, Hurley, laid hold of my arms. I met the prisoners at the time of the robbery. I described them at the Office that night. Court. Q. How soon after the robbery did you see them that night - A. When they were going away, they came back to the spot; I was a little higher up; they were moving about, and appeared to be the same party - I was ten yards from them. The robbery was on the north side of Whitechapel. THOMAS GRIFFITHS. I am a police officer. The day after the robbery I received information, and went the next morning, which was Wednesday, to Black Lion-yard, which is lower down the road than Petticoat-lane, nearer to Mile End. I went there between nine and ten o'clock, and found the prisoner, Daltry, up one pair of stairs; Hurley was also in a room there, both with girls, I took them into custody. I received information, and went in pursuit of Martin, and took him in Trumpet-court, just by Black Lion-yard, about half an hour after. Court. Q. Was you present when the prosecutor saw the prisoner - A. There were seven of them at the bar together; the prosecutor was brought in. The magistrate asked him if there was any person there who had robbed him? he immediately pointed out Daltry and the fourother prisoners. He said he knew nothing of the other two. Cross-examined. He pointed out Daltry immediately. He said that he held him and pushed him about. He could not distinguish which was on one side of him, and which was on the other. I had taken them up on another charge. I never saw them before. Court. Q.Although he could not distinguish which was on one side, and which was on the other, did he separate them from the others - A. He separated the prisoners, and said he knew nothing of the others. I apprehended them from the description I received at the office. EBENEZER DALTON. I am an officer. I apprehended Rule and Newton, on the 16th of October, at the Black Horse, in George-street, Spitalfields, about eleven o'clock in the morning, by the description which I received at the office. DALTRY'S Defence. I am innocent. I was at a public-house at the time. WILLIAM SMITHERS was called to prove this fact, but his evidence referred to the day before the prisoner was taken up, and not to the time of the robbery. MARTIN'S Defence. I can prove I was at home from six till nine o'clock that night. HANNAH ROBINSON and JUDAH BENJAMIN were called to prove the alibi. Their evidence also referred to the night before the prisoner was apprehended. RULE'S Defence. I am innocent. HURLEY'S Defence. I am innocent. NEWTON'S Defence. I was at home from half-past seven till eight o'clock. DALTRY. - GUILTY - DEATH . Aged 22. RULE- NOT GUILTY . NEWTON. - NOT GUILTY . MARTIN. - GUILTY . - DEATH . Aged 19. HURLEY. - GUILTY . - DEATH . Aged 21. First Middlesex Jury, before Mr. Justice Park.

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Maureen Withey on 26th July 2019

Hobart Town Gazette, 4 Mar 1825 Absconded prisoners Thomas Brown, Wm. Grosvenor, Moses Martin, and George Phillips, (advertised in last week's Gazette) escaped from this Colony in the brig Deveron, and were delivered up to a man of war in the harbour of Rio de Janeiro, August 1823.

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Maureen Withey on 26th July 2019

Colonial Secretary's Index MARTIN, Moses. Per "Isabella", 1818 1818 Sep 22 - On list of convicts disembarked from the "Glory" and "Isabella" and forwarded to Liverpool for distribution (Reel 6006; 4/3499 p.59)

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Maureen Withey on 26th July 2019

Hobart Town Gazette, 4 Mar 1825 Absconded prisoners Moses Martin, 157, 5 ft. 1½ in. black hair, hazel eyes, 26 years of age, tried at Middlesex Oct. 29, 1817, sentence life, arrived at Sydney per Isabella 1818, and at this Colony per Admiral Cockburn 2d, 1819, a confectioner, born at London, absconded from the Public Works June 9,1823.—£2 Reward.