John Franklin

2364. JOHN FRANKLIN was indicted for stealing, on the 27th of September , 2 books, value 5s. , the goods of George Mason .

GEORGE MASON. I live in Gray's Inn-passage , and am a bookseller . About nine o'clock in the morning of the 27th of September, I was standing in my parlour at the back of my shop; I saw the prisoner come up to my window, take two books off the shelf, and run away with them; I pursued, and took him twelve yards from my house, with them under his coat; they were taken from the shelf, which is about a foot from the window, which was up; I was watching myself.

MICHAEL COLE (Police-constable F 149). I took the prisoner.(Property produced and sworn to.)
GUILTY . Aged 22. - Transported for Seven Years .

Reference Number: t18321018-157

Offence: Theft > simple larceny

Verdict: Guilty

Punishment: Transportation

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John Franklin, one of 230 convicts transported on the Captain Cook, 02 May 1833