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  • Richard Turpin / John Palmer / John Pawmer, born Hempstead, Essex, former butcher, 33

    Date: 7 Apr 1739

    Crime:
    Horse stealing - a black mare price ?3, a black filly foal price 20s, and black gelding price ?3, all belonging to Thomas Creasy of Welton.

    See also TNA: ASSI 45/21/3(57).

    TNA: ASSI 41/3. London Evening Post, 12 Apr 1739. The Trial of the Notorious Highwayman Richard Turpin ? taken down in Court by Mr. Thomas Kyll, 1739. The Genuine History of the Life of Richard Turpin, &c. 1739. Yorkshire Archaeological Journal, vol 25, p 440. Criminal Chronology, p 47.

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  • Thomas Hadfield

    Date: Lent 1739

    Crime:
    Highway robbery - stealing 15s from Joshua Finney at Rothwell; reprieved 14 years Summer 1739.

    Hadfield was Richard Turpin's hangman at the Lent 1739 Assizes and was reprieved for acting as his executioner.

    TNA: ASSI 41/3; ASSI 41/4.

  • Mary Henderson

    Date: Lent 1766 York City

    Crime:
    Stealing a tobacco box valued at 1d and a half guinea belonging to George Turpin of St Trinity Micklegate, York; transportation 7 years Lent 1766.

    TNA: ASSI 41/5; ASSI 42/8.

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