| Reference Number | t17970712-41 |
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| Verdict | Guilty |
| Sentence | Transportation |
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450. THOMAS KENNEDY was indicted for feloniously stealing, on the 19th of June , a silver watch, value 30s. the property of Michael Quin .
WALTER HADEN sworn. - On Monday, the 19th of June, I lost a watch from my kitchin fireplace, it was hanging up on a nail; it is my child's watch, his name is Michael Quin .
Q. How came your child to be named Michael Quin? - A. It was my wife's child by a former husband; the prisoner lodged at my house, I went to work at six o'clock in the morning of the 20th of June, and when I came home to breakfast, my wife told me the watch was gone
SAMUEL SEWELL sworn. - (Produces the watch): I took it in of the prisoner in the name of Thomas Martin.
CATHERINE HADEN sworn. - This is the watch I am positive, it is my child's; I saw it between six and seven in the evening.
Prisoner's defence. I had not slept there for two nights before; I bought the watch.
Mrs. Haden. He did not sleep at our house for those two nights, but he was there in the day-time.
GUILTY . (Aged 40.)
Transported for seven years .
Tried by the second Middlesex Jury, before Mr. Justice BULLER.