Friday, July 28.
William Earp, prisoner for life, who had ran from the Prisoners' Barrack, was sentenced to the treadmill for 10 days.
Solyman, a native of Hindoo, belonging to the brig Jane and Eliza, who had refused to go on board his vessel when ordered by the chief officer, who found him on shore drunk, and from whom he made his escape, and was proceeding in a boat towards the Government Domain, when he was overtaken and brought on shore, by the mate and a constable; there was a man named Gronheart in company with Solyman, who made some attempts to rescue him from custody, but he got a tap on the head from the constable's staff, which rather disfigured the upper part of his face with a sort of crimson stream, which however was congealed by the time he appeared before the Bench; Solyman was fined 5s. to the poor for being drunk, and Gronheart was discharged with a suitable admonition.
Some runaways from the interior, apprehended at Sydney, were ordered to be returned to the stations whence they had absconded, to be dealt with by the proper authorities there.
Source: Police Reports (1826, August 2). The Sydney Gazette and New South Wales Advertiser (NSW : 1803 - 1842), p. 3.
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