Aged twenty-three, from London, admitted here about a year since,
and had been previously confined six years in the Penitentiary at
Millbank, to which place he was committed in commutation for his
sentence of transportation for seven years, incurred by his conviction
for picking pockets, in which profession he was an eminent adept; nor
does the length of his confinement, or the nature of his insanity, seem
in the least to have altered his taste for that pursuit.
On being asked how he obtained a living in all his former life, he
answered: “by thieving, to be sure.”
“How would you get your living again, if you were sent out?”
“By thieving, to be sure: nothing like it.”
He became deranged while in the Penitentiary, and still continues so.
He is said to have been a thief ever since his childhood. His person is
diminutive, and his habits slovenly and uncleanly.