Bury and Norwich Post 25 Mar 1835: Sarah Parkinson robbed in Cambridge
Eliz. Smith, John Farrant, John Sterne, John Watson, Nicholas Lane, Joseph Johnson, and Frances Wright, were charged with stealing £1. 4s. 2d. from the person of Sarah Parkinson, in the streets of Cambridge, on the 13th of March last. The Prosecutrix stated that she came from Trumpington on the day in question, and was followed by one of the young gentlemen of the University, to avoid whom she went at the back of the college. The prisoners saw her, and accused her of having accompanied the young gentleman, and told her that she should pay her footing, which she refused to do. They afterwards stopped her in the street; and while Farrant, Lane, and Watson held her, the prisoner Smith took off her pocket, in which her money was, and ran away with it. Watson remaining with her, and holding her till they had all got away. The prisoners, several of whom, though young in years, were old offenders, were all found guilty. Smith, Farrant, and Watson, were sen-tenced to 14 years’ transportation; Lane, 7 years; Sterne and Johnson, one year’s imprisonment; Wright 6 months.