 A detailed account by a detective involved in the case was later published.Ellis and Lewin Caspar were sentenced at the Old Bailey in London on 17 June 1839 for 15 years for "feloniously receiving stolen goods".They spent some time in the infamous Newgate Prison in London and were then transported to Van Diemen's Land on the convict ship "Lord Lyndoch" from Plymouth, arriving in 1841.