Compiled from the Hobart Town Government Gazettes from March 1827.
March 10 to 16, 1827.
Samuel Hillary who has dealt so largely in sheep in the neighbourhood of Jericho, has been apprehended and committed to gaol on a charge of felony. He was found secreted in a house in the suburbs of the town.
James Kerr is fully committed for trial, for a robbery in the King's store some time ago, when George Dunfield a prisoner lost property to a large amount.
William Wilson and James Cassidy are committed for trial for soliciting and inciting Charles Clary, a servant to the Edinburgh Australian Company, to commit a felony in their Store on the wharf.
The three men, Haywood, Scott and Jackson, implicated in the treasury bills, lately discovered to be forgeries on the Commissariat at Sydney, are committed for trial. Nothing further has yet been elicited respecting them, Sharman was discharged for want of sufficient evidence.
Two prisoners Clarke and Vaughan are in gaol for stealing a large quantity of turpentine from the stores, value £100. Gilchrist who was in custody on the same charge was discharged.
The last named person (Gilchrist), however, and Cockerell, the late clerk in the Colonial Secretary's office, were transported for three years to hard labour in Maria Island, being fully convicted of making alterations in the Register of Convicts.
Robert Mott and Richard Hammond are fully committed for trial, for stealing the boots from Mrs. Sargeants, belonging to Captain Thomas, as also, Thomas Ewbank Piddock, for forgery.
The following absentees have been apprehended since last publication, viz.: -
John Gunn
William Bradbury
George Braithwaite
Jane Cefender (Cesender)
Ann Darter
John Pritchard
Thomas Shurely
James Smart
George Warner
The following prisoners were last week discharged by proclamation in the Supreme Court, viz. -
Phelim Bonar
W. Smith
T. Hill
F. Yarnold
Ellen Beck
Bonar had been accused of the murder of his wife at the Green Ponds, and Smith for robbing the stores of Messrs. Kemp & Co.
Saturday March 17.
Terence Cullen was fully committed for trial for burglary in the dwelling-house of Mr. R. Lewis, at the Hollow-street, on Wednesday morning on the 7th instant, before day light, Swinburne, Mr. Lewis's servant, being alarmed, found Cullen standing at the bed-room window, and a man, Rogers, (not yet taken) coming out. Swinburne knew them both, and he and his fellow servants pursued them and caught Cullen in that act of getting in at a window about a quarter of a mile distant. Mr. Lewis's room was emptied of every moveable article to the value of £150 and upwards, and no part of the property has yet been found.
David Beck, a constable holding a ticket of leave, was bound over to keep the peace for assaulting Catherine his wife.
George Dixon was committed for trial for stealing a jacket from Thomas Macdermott.
Three men, Turner, Lee and Gordon, were committed for a highway robbery on Mr. W. White, on Thursday last. As he was passing down Liverpool-street between 7 and 8 in the evening, he was knocked down and robbed by three men, one of whom left his hat on the ground. Turner was seen just afterwards running across the rivulet, and the hat proved to be his. It is chiefly owing to the vigilance of Andrew Rhind, who calls the must at the Lumber-yard that these fellows are brought to justice. As he knew Turner's hat, and had seen him and the others just before drinking in a public house where Mr. White was, he traced Turner to the huts in the Paddock, where he caught him without his hat, and on his person a disfigured dollar, which Mr. White swore was part of the money of which he had been robbed.
Monday March 19.
Great credit is due to the officer of the Police for the peace and quiet of Hobart-town on St. Patrick's day, the 17th instant, a period generally of riot and drunkenness.
Charles Clarges was bound to appear at the Supreme Court for assaulting John Green, overseer of the chain gang.
March 20 to 31, 1827.
Thomas Stoxford was charged with stealing a glass and other articles of W. Osborne. It appeared that the things had merely been left by the prisoner, with Osborne, as a pledge for a debt. He was discharged.
Richard Hammond, charged with stealing boots of Captain Thomas, was admitted to bail.
Sarah Dowling and Mary Ann Rowley were charged with being notorious and disorderly characters, without any fixed place of residence. These unhappy young women had been frequently at the Office on a similar charge, and there being no proper place of punishment, they were severely admonished by the magistrate and discharged, on promising to amend their lives.
John Draper, who was discharged from gaol by proclamation only the other day, was charged with being drunk and disorderly, (at whose expense is difficult to say). He was severely reprimanded.
Ann Cockerell, with Arabella Darkers, and Ann Ashton, her daughters, were charged with assaulting and beating Ann Podmore. They had, on many occasions, abused and defamed the complainant who, in consequence, expostulated with the prisoners, who returned the remonstrance by giving her a severe beating. They were ordered to find sureties for their good behaviour.
James Tooney, one of the Field Police, was convicted of being drunk and disorderly, and of neglect of duty in suffering Joseph Whitehouse to escape from his custody on his way from the Coal River to Hobart-town. He had two men in charge, and was found by Mr. Fisk, lying on the road beastly drunk, with only one of his prisoners, and his musket lying near him. This man was one of the first who joined the Field Police, and in 18 months more he would have been entitled to his emancipation. Mr. Humphrey marked his crime with the following punishment, which, it is to be hoped, will be a timely caution to all others, viz: dismissed from his office, forfeit all his salary, receive 50 lashes, and labour in irons for three months.
On Monday morning William Ellis, Henry Kerwin, who had absconded from the Road Party, at Lemon Springs, and Charles Smith, who had escaped from Launceston with a false certificate of freedom belonging to Thomas Walker, were apprehended in a hut at Macquarie Point, by Andrew Rhind, and sentenced by Mr. Lakeland, each to receive 50 lashes and to labour four months in the Chain Gang.
Sources:
- Police Intelligence - March 10 to 16, 1827. Hobart Town Government Gazette. Saturday 17 March 1827. pg 3.
- Police Intelligence - Saturday March 17 and 19. Hobart Town Government Gazette. Saturday 24 March 1827. pg 3.
- Police Intelligence - March 20 to 31, 1827. Hobart Town Government Gazette. Saturday 31 March 1827. pg 3.
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