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Old Bailey Sessions.

On Monday, all the prisoners having been tried, the following sentences were pronounced by the Recorder:—

James Brown, Benjamin Nicholls (alias Page), George Walker, John Harris, Caroline Lucy, Sarah Beasley, Mary Weekes, Susan Jones, Frederick Buckle, Daniel Hammet, and William Shooter - to transportation for life. John Bayler, William Smith, John Lawrence, Edward Sampson, Robert Scothorn, Richard Elston, John Fordam, and Sarah Berry— to fourteen years' transportation, 39 to seven years' transportation, and 41 to various terms of imprisonment.

The following prisoners, Jeremiah Praed, George Williams, Gilbert Witt, Robert Harding, Henry Richards, Thomas Burdett, Wm. Jones, alias Gray, Thomas Sales, James Webber, Wm. Lewin Watkins, and Wm. Adams, then received sentence of death.

Source: Bell's Weekly Messenger, No.1770, Sunday, February 28, 1830

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