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Transportation
Charles Mcdermott was transported on the Navarino, departing 22nd Sep 1842 and arriving 10th Jan 1843 with 181 passengers.
Built 1808. 493 tons. Several voyages to Australia with convict transportees. Registers of persons currently being updated - not complete as yet. 1840-1841. Departed Dublin 5th.Sept 1842. Arrived Hobart appx 10th Jan 1843. Sailed with 260 convicts including between 40-50 women,girls & children loaded at Kingstown Harbor. Capt A Warning.
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City Sessions- Saturday. BREAKING IN AND ROBBlNG. Charles M'Dermott, a most notorious house-breaker, known among the police by the soubriquet of 'Long Charley’, was indicted for having broken into the house of Colonel Kelly, in Kildare-street, on the morning of Sunday, 24th of July, and having stolen therefrom a large quantity of plate and plated ware. Mr. Brewster, Q.C., and Mr. McKane, conducted the prosecution, and Mr. J. Walsh appeared for the prisoner. The first witness was William Kane, footman to Colonel Kelly. who deposed that on the morning in question he got up between six and seven o'clock, and was surprised to find a pair of shoes lying on a mat at the foot of the stairs; he entered the parlour and saw the prisoner standing up against the wall in a dark corner of the room ; witness immediately drew the door to him, and having locked it from from without ran up to alarm his master, who came down; on opening the parlour door it was found that the prisoner was no longer in the appartment, having leaped out through the back window, and effected his escape through the stable, at the end of the garden. Mr. Walsh-Will you swear positively that the prisoner was the man you saw in the parlour ? Witness--I will lie is the very identical man. Mr. Walsh reminded the witness that at the investigation in College-street Police-office, two days after the robbery, he had expressly stated that he was unable to identify the prisoner, of whom he could only say that he was like the man in question? Witness-I am now sure that he is the thief. William Redmond examined-I live at No. 2, Molesworth- lane; I was in my house oe the morning of the 24th ult., between six and seven o’clock; I saw a man like the prisoner running down the lane without shoes on him; I asked him what o'clock it was; he said- Mr. Walsh objected to this line of examination. The witness had not identified the man who ran by, and as he might be a different person altogether from the prisoner, a conversation with a third party could not be evidence. The witness left the table, A letter-carrier was examined, and proved he saw the prisoner running down Molesworth-street from towards Kildare-street on the morning of the 24th; lie had no shoes on, and there was blood on his cheek; I cannot identify the prisoner. Colonel Kelly proved that on the morning in question he lost a large quantity of plate, which was stolen from his side. board; witness saw a pair of shoes lying at the foot of the stairs which lie cannot identify as being the shoes of the prisoner. Police constables Patrick Barnes, 87 C, and Farrell 88. positively identified the shoes which the robber left behind him at Colonel Kelly's as being the shoes of the prisoner. They had arrested him the day before the robbery on suspicion of another felony, and had minutely observed his shoes. These witnesses underwent a long cross-examination from Mr. Walsh. - Mr. Walsh addressed the jury at great length for the prisoner. Verdict- Guilty. The Recorder sentenced the prisoner, a very well-looking young man, to transportation for 15 years, the present being the fifth conviction that was had against him. Freeman’s Journal, 8 Aug 1842.
Navarino Indent: https://libraries.tas.gov.au/Digital/CON14-1-16/CON14-1-16P217 and https://libraries.tas.gov.au/Digital/CON14-1-16/CON14-1-16P218 Charles McDermott, Tried Dublin City, 6 Aug 1842. 5 ft 9 ½. Age 24, 15 years, Catholic, can read and write. Single. Offence: House robbery and stealing plate, value £40 from Colonel Kelly. Once for handf, 3 mos. 3 mos for money- Housebreaking 6 mos. 12 months for £5. Surgeon’s Report, Good. Trade, Labourer & police man. Native place, Dublin Remarks: Police man 19 mos. F, John at Dublin. B, John Hy Thos. S, Eliza Sarah.
Place of origin: Dublin, Dublin Offence; Felony of Plate. Aged; 24 years old Trade; Sawyer, Labourer & Policeman DROWNED; AT Sloper Island - 7 November 1843. Vide Memo of Supt of Station dated 9 November 1843