Hi Cheryl
Found newspaper article relating to the crime and sentence of Nicholas LANE. John LONG not mentioned, though he is listed on the same criminal register page.
The Bury & Norwich Post, & East Anglian: Or, Suffolk, Norfolk, Essex, Cambridge, and Ely Intelligencer (Bury Saint Edmunds, England), Wednesday, March 25, 1835; Issue 2752. 19th Century British Library Newspapers: Part II.
CAMBRIDGESHIRE ASSIZES.
Eliz. Smith, John Farrant, John Sterne, John Watson, Nicholas Lane, Joseph Johnson, and Frances Wright, were charged with stealing 11. 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 colleges. The prisoners saw her, and accused her of having accompanied the young gentlemen, 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 sent to 14 years’ transportation; Lane 7 years; Sterne and
Johnson one year’s imprisonment; Wright 6 months.
England & Wales, Criminal Registers, 1791-1892
Location of Trial: Cambridgeshire, England
Date of Trial: 18 Mar 1835
Elizabeth SMITH age 24 larceny 14 years
John FARREN age 18 larceny 14 years
John WATSON age 19 larceny 14 years
Nicholas LANE age 17 larceny 7 years
Charles LONG age 20 larceny 7 years (not mentioned in above crime)
John SMITH age 17 larceny 7 years
John STERNE age 17 larceny 1 year
Joseph JOHSON age 18 larceny 1 year
Frances WRIGHT age 17 larceny 6 months
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