Abscondment and His Wife's Arrest
Solomon fled England, going first to Denmark and then to the United States, arriving in New York in August 1827.
Ikey's escape from custody was prominent news throughout England. Police quickly focused on Ikey's family.
Officers arrested Solomon's wife, Ann, and charged her with receiving stolen goods. She was found guilty and sentenced to penal transportation to Tasmania (then known as Van Diemen's Land). The judge allowed Solomon's four youngest children (all under the age of ten) to accompany Ann on the transport ship. Their two oldest sons, John, 20, and Moses, 19, sailed to Sydney and then to Tasmania independently in order to be with their mother.
Ikey's father was also charged with theft, but the court allowed his sentence to be respited because of his age. (Henry claimed, "I am upwards of seventy years old". The Old Bailey records him as being 69).
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