Benjamin Stevenson

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C H on 15th February 2024

VDL Founders and Survivors Convicts 1802-1853, Convict Description Record ID fas_cod2250 Arrival year 1821 Gender m Height 5/5¼ Eyes Hazel Hair Brown Marks Small Scars on left eyebrow broken nose Old Bailey Online HENRY NEWLAND. BENJAMIN STEVENSON. Theft; theft from a specified place. 11th April 1821. Text type Trial account Defendants HENRY NEWLAND, BENJAMIN STEVENSON Offences Theft > Theft from place Session Date 11th April 1821 Reference Number t18210411-198 Verdicts Guilty > Pleaded guilty, Guilty Punishments Transportation THIRTEENTH DAY, THURSDAY, APRIL 26. 682. HENRY NEWLAND and BENJAMIN STEVENSON , were indicted for stealing, on the 15th of April , certain fixtures (i. e.) forty-eight panes of glass, value 5 l. belonging to Mark Cohen , and fixed to a building of his . SECOND COUNT, Not stating them to be fixtures. STEVENSON pleaded Guilty . Aged 29. MARK COHEN . I am a paper-stainer , and live in Devonshire-street, Commercial-road. On Sunday evening the 15th of April, about half past seven o'clock, the watchman came and enquired if I had moved any sashes from my new house; I went round with him to the house, and at the beginning of the street I looked up to the house, and saw the prisoner Newland in the act of taking a sash out of the first floor window of my house; on looking at the other window of the room, I saw Stevenson taking the sash out of that window - I saw them actually doing it; the watchman said, "They are now in the house." He ran round to the back of the house - nobody lives in it - it is just finished: I unlocked the door; the watchman said I had better wait outside. I ran out and saw Stevenson attempt to jump out of the window; the watchman went up and took them both in custody in the room. I examined the back door, and found a bolt wrenched off: I had seen the windows safe in the morning. We found a chisel and a bag there. JOHN CLOVER . I am the watchman. I assisted the last witness in taking the prisoners. I found Dornain had them in custody. I found six squares of glass in a bag they had been taken out of one of the sashes. JOSEPH DORNAIN . I am a watchman. I assisted in taking the prisoners in the back room first floor of Cohen's empty house; they said nothing. I found a chisel in the room covered with putty. (Property produced and sworn to.) NEWLAND'S Defence. Stevenson came into the Red Lion and drank with me, and said he would give me 2 s. to carry his tools; I went with him, but touched nothing. NEWLAND - GUILTY . Aged 43. Both transported for Seven Years . First Middlesex Jury, before Mr. Arabin.