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Biographies
Born: 1797 in England
Trial: Middlesex 11 Oct 1816 Age given as 18 in 1815
HENRY TURBETT, Violent Theft > robbery, 10th May 1815.
Reference Number: t18150510-33 Offence: Violent Theft > robbery
Verdict: Guilty Punishment: Transportation
623. HENRY TURBETT was indicted for feloniously making an assault, on the 12th of April, on Elizabeth Evan , and taking from her person and against her will, a cotton shawl, value 3 s. the property of Francis Evans.
ELIZABETH EVANS . My husband's name is Francis Evans. I lost my shawl on the 12th of last April, before eight o'clock, at night; I was going into a chandler's shop, in Saffron-street, a man came behind me, rather pushed me; I felt him; I turned round, the man was running, with my shawl in his hand; the shawl was thrown over my shoulders. I saw him pulling it off; I never lost sight of him, or the shawl; when he came to the corner of Saffron-street, I saw him throw it down; I picked it up; a young man stopped the prisoner; it was the prisoner at the bar, who took my shawl; I saw enough of his face to know him again.
Barnley, the officer, has the shawl. Prisoner.
Q. Was not your husband in the street –
A. No. Mr. Barnley took the prisoner to my house; he was not intoxicated.
JOHN BARNLEY. I was in Peter-street; I heard the cry of stop thief; I ran till I came into Saffron-street; I saw the prisoner throw something down at the corner; he fell down; I catched hold of him; the woman picked up the shawl, and handed it to me; she said, that was the shawl he had robbed her off.
Q. Did you know this lad before –
A. Yes; I cannot say any thing about him. Prosecutrix. This is the shawl, it is mine; the value of it is about five shillings.
GUILTY , aged 18. Transported for Seven Years. First Middlesex Jury, before Mr. Justice Le Blanc
Transportation: Mariner
Marriage: Henry Turbitt, prisoner, age 21, per Mariner, of the parish of Liverpool and Eliza Allen, prisoner, age 21 per the ship Wellington, of the parish of Parramatta were married in this church by banns this eighteenth day of September in the year 1820 by me George Middleton
Both Henry and Eliza made their X marks in the register in the presence of William Sparkes who made his X mark and Frances Bodley who made her X mark
Submitted by Researcher (13742) on 15 February 2021
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- The National Archives (TNA) : HO 11/2, p.256
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