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Garrett Armstrong,
Richard Bailey, Joshua Baither, William Bradley, Joseph Brooks,
Joseph Burridge,
John Cobb,
Samuel Cobb, Patrick Collins, James Condon, Calvert, John Cricks,
William Harrison Craig,
Thomas Desmond, Dennis
Donovan,
Druce,
John Fitzgerald,
Patrick Hogan,
William Johnson,
John Jones (Gibber Jack), Joel Josephs,
Thomas Keenan, Nicholas Knight,
John Lee,
Thomas Madden, Morgan
Maloney, James Martin, John Maxwell, McCabe, John Moore
George Napier,
James O'Hearne,
Francis Parcello, Felix Patshaw, John
Pierce, William Powers, Walter Preston, Samuel Pullen
Angelo le
Rossi,
Francis Satchell, Scarr,
Simpson, George Stone, Herbert Styles,
Jeremiah Sullivan,
William Thomas, Daniel Thurston,
Tierney
Walker, Samuel
Walters, George Watts, John Uran,
1811
28 September 1811
GOVERNMENT PUBLIC NOTICE – Whereas the following
Prisoners have absconded from His Majesty’s Settlement
of Newcastle, and are supposed to be lurking about the
lower part of the Hawkesbury; viz J. Fitzgerald, G. Armstrong and
J. McCabe – three notorious characters;
John Moore absconded from the Lieutenant Governor’s;
Francis Satchell from the Lumber yard and William
Bradley from the Boats’ crew; and also Samuel Pullen
lately employed in the Lumber Yard at Sydney, and by
trade a turner. All Persons are hereby strictly
cautioned against harbouring encouraging, or maintaining
all or either of the said Fugitives on pain pf
prosecution and all constables and other persons are
hereby required and directed to exert their utmost
diligence in apprehending and lodging them in safe
custody.
The
Sydney Gazette 28 September 1811
1812
25 July 1812
ABSCONDER John Fitzgerald , a notorious character, escaped from Lady Nelson bound for
Port Dalrymple after plundering her of various articles of slop; and Henry Joyce
absconded from Newcastle. Settlers and Constables are cautioned against harbouring.
The Sydney Gazette 25 July 1812
29 August 1812
SENT TO NEWCASTLE
- John Jones (alias
Gibber Jack)
sentenced to three years to Newcastle for distillation of spirits at North
Harbour, Sydney.
The Sydney Gazette 29 August 1812
31 October 1812
ESCAPE - Whereas John Jones
better known as Gibber Jack, lately convicted and sentenced to Newcastle for
distilling has made his escape from the settlement; This is to caution all
settlers and others against harbouring, employing or otherwise encouraging the
absentee on pain of prosecution. The Sydney Gazette 31 October 1812
1813
16 January 1813
ABSCONDERS -The
undermentioned prisoners having absented themselves from their respective
employments, all constables and others are hereby strictly required to use
utmost exertions in apprehending and lodging them in safe custody:
From Newcastle – John Jones alias
Gibber Jack; James Martin; James O’Hearne; John Maxwell;
Joshua Baither ;
Joel Josephs; James Conden; John Pierce; Angelo le Rosse; Richard Bailey; William
Powers;
Herbert Styles; Phelix Patshaw; Morgan Maloney; Samuel Warters - Sydney Gazette 16
January 1813
13
February
1813
TREATMENT OF
ABSCONDING PRISONERS BY NATIVES -
On
Sunday the 6th instant, four prisoners viz
Joel Josephs, Samuel Waters, John
Maxwell and Joseph Bathers were taken before a Bench of
Magistrates assembled at Windsor, charged with desertion
from Hunter’s River; from which place they were ordered to
be returned. After admitting that they were fugitives from
the above settlement, they related the particulars of their
escape, which had been attended with circumstances
peculiarly lamentable. Josephs left the settlement the 2nd
of January and in two days after fell in with a party of
natives, who stripped him, and left him without food to
prosecute his perilous journey, which he nevertheless
completed and gave himself up to a constable as soon as
reached Hawkesbury – Waters, Maxwell and Bathers left the
Settlement on Christmas Day, having in company Richard
Bailey and William Powers – They lost their way, and getting
into the mountains, wandered three weeks without the hope of
ever reaching any of the Settlements. Chance directed them
however, to the seacoast where they met with a large body of
natives. Bailey was killed on the spot and the others were
afterwards stripped and suffered to proceed towards Broken
Bay, where they reached in an exhausted state which it was
ascertained they could not have survived many hours had they
not found relief from a man who ministered their immediate
wants and conveyed them to Hawkesbury where they were given
over to the Constables – The survivors appear to have a
thorough sense of their obligations to Providence in having
unexpectedly saved them from amidst their numerous perils,
brought on by their own disobedience and rashness; and their
sufferings will it is to be hoped be warning to others
against engaging in such plans, which are pregnant with as
many evils to themselves as subversive to the peace and good
order of the Colony. Sydney Gazette 13
February
1813
17 April 1813
APPREHENDED John
Jones (alias Gibber Jack) after several months at large was apprehended in
Brickfields area for a repetition of his former offence. Sentenced to an extra
three years hard labour at Newcastle
Sydney Gazette 17 April 1813
20
November
1813
PUBLIC NOTICE
– The undermentioned prisoners having absented themselves from their respective
employments, all constables and others are hereby strictly required to use
utmost exertions in apprehending and lodging them in safe custody:
Daniel Thurston , John Uran,
George Watts, Patrick Hogan, Angelo La Rosse, William
Harrison Craig Sydney Gazette 20
November
1813
1814 - 1820
1814
2 9 January 1814
HIGHWAY ROBBERY -
Samuel Cobb, Angelo Le Rosse
and Isaac Walker were charged with stopping Mr. Samuel
Larkin on the highway and robbing him. The Sydney Gazette 29
January 1814
ABSCONDERS
APPREHENDED -
Dennis Donovan and Thomas
Madden both fugitives from Newcastle now in custody. The
Sydney Gazette 29 January 1814
26 March 1814
NEWCASTLE ABSCONDER - Newcastle
absconder Angelo la Rosse found guilty of robbing Samuel Larkin and sentenced to
death. The Sydney Gazette 26 March 1814
16 April 1814
CONDEMNED TO DEATH - On
Wednesday morning at 8 am, Richard Dowling, Francis Barry and Angelo le Rosse, three of
the malefactors condemned to death before the late Court of
Criminal Jurisdiction, were led to the place of execution
and with their lives atoned for their offences. Dowling and
Barry were very contrite but the other, a Roman Catholic and
attended by a monitor of the same persuasion did not at the
approach of death evince that resignation to his fate from
which alone can emanate peace of mind which the true
Christian wishes every fellow being to enjoy.
> The Sydney Gazette 16 April 1814
23 April 1814
'PIRATES'
SEIZE THE SCHOONER SPEEDWELL -
Information is received from
Newcastle of the piratical capture of the Speedwell,
a schooner of about 21 tons burthen, Patten master, on the
night of the 7th instant, by four desperadoes,
whose names are Burridge, Styles, Scarr and Pearce. The
report states that the night was a continual heavy rain; and
that about midnight the master was awakened by one of the
ruffians, who requested in the name of the Commandant the
loan of a grapnel, for the purpose of mooring a boat off;
which the master went down the hold to procure, and was
there secured after a struggle, in the course of which he
received several blows on the head. The wife of the master
being on board, and a seaman, who was asleep in the
forecastle, they were both secured, and the wind favouring
the audacious attack, the vessel was taken out of the
harbour without the slightest alarm reaching the shore nor
was she discerned till at the very mouth of the river; when
the people on board the Governor Hunter, which had
been that day launched from the beach she had sometime
before grounded on, saw her beating about, and concluded she
had got adrift, and was endeavouring to work in ; so that as
it continued to rain very hard, no further notice was taken
of her. The Governor Hunter’s boat had been missed
the same night from along side, and it proved afterwards
that she had been stolen by these depredators, and was
employed in the capture, but given unto the three persons
whom they made prisoners, to return with it to the
settlement. On board the vessel was month’s provisions, and
about sixty gallons of water; which may enable them for a
short time to subsist, but they have no boat with them, and
consequently can procure no supply of necessaries without
the utmost risque to the vessel and their own lives; and
thus as has been the case with every former attempt of the
kind, may be counted on as the certain destruction of those
who have been rash enough to engage in it.
The Sydney Gazette 23 April 1814
7 May 1814
ESCAPEES ON THE SPEEDWELL
Public
Notice
- Names of the
Pirates who cut out the Speedwell Sloop on the night of 7th
April 1814:
Joseph Burridge per General
Hewitt 1814
Edward Scarr per Admiral
Gambier 1811
Herbert Styles, Brig Eagle
from India
John Pearce per Indian 1810
Any person or persons
harbouring, concealing or maintaining any of the said
absentees will be prosecuted for the offence The Sydney Gazette 7 May 1814
28 May 1814
BUSHRANGER Dennis Donovan - Public Notice – Whereas
diverse Highway robberies and other offences have recently
been committed in the vicinity of Sydney and its contiguous
districts, some of which are vehemently suspected to be
concerning Dennis Donovan a fugitive convict from Hunter
River settlement. This is to give notice that any person or
persons apprehending the said Dennis Donovan or giving
information that may cause him to be apprehended will
receive reward of £10. The Sydney Gazette 28 May 1814
11 June 1814
BUSHRANGER - Whereas
Patrick Collins, a runaway from Newcastle and a notorious bushranger stands
charged with having committed diverse robberies whoever will apprehend or cause
to be apprehended the said Patrick Collins shall receive £20 reward.
Dennis Donovan apprehended in
a house in York Street. William Farrell an alleged
accomplice in his most recent crimes was also apprehended. The Sydney Gazette 11 June 1814
1 July 1814
BUSHRANGER In the trial of
Dennis
Donovan for the murder of William Alder at Hawkesbury River
– Donovan said a compass had ‘guided him from the Coal
River’. (Here it may be proper to remark that the prisoner
Donovan and Patrick Collins had escaped from Hunter River at
about the same time; and that Croppy Beach which was near
the place where the murders took place is named Croppy Beach
by the natives as a place which fugitives from Hunter river
cannot avoid in their escape from that settlement. The Sydney Gazette 1 July 1814
24 September 1814
BUSHRANGER Patrick Collins was apprehended by John Warby and several natives at the
Devil’s Back. He was speared in the leg and arm by natives
before he gave himself up The Sydney Gazette 24 September
1814
10 December 1814
PUBLIC NOTICE
– The Persons undernamed being Convicts who absconded from Newcastle all persons
are hereby cautioned against harbouring, employing encouraging or in anywise
maintaining any or either of the said Persons on Pain of Prosecution:
John Cobb, who arrived by the 2nd Ann; absent since the 31st
October last
Francis Parcello and
Walter Preston, by the Guildford; John Cricks by the
Archduke Charles; Isaac Walker by the 1st
Gambier; John Lee by the 2nd Gambier; and
Thomas Desmond
by the Atlas; all of whom absented themselves from the
Lime Burning Gang
on the 25th of November ultimo.
All constables and
others are hereby required to do their utmost Endeavour in apprehending or
causing to be apprehended all or any of the said Fugitives. The Sydney Gazette 10
December 1814
1815
19 August 1815
PUBLIC NOTICE – The Persons undernamed being Convicts who absconded from Newcastle all
persons are hereby cautioned against harbouring, employing
encouraging, maintaining any or either of the said Persons
on Pain of Prosecution:
Jeremiah Sullivan, George
Stone, Thomas Keenan, William Thomas, Joseph Brooks,
Nicholas Knight The Sydney Gazette 19 August 1815
1816
2nd March 1816
HIGHWAY ROBBERY - Nicholas
Knight, formerly stockman to J. Connell of Pitt Street, Sydney charged with
highway robbery and diverse misdemeanours. 5’10”; stout; red hair; long visage;
freckled, white mark on bridge of nose which is peaked. Native of Dublin.
Absconded from Newcastle. The Sydney Gazette 2nd March 1816
15 June 1816
COURT OF CRIMINAL JURISDICTION
- On
Monday the Court assembled; and after giving gone through the usual formulae
adjourned to Tuesday; when Nicholas Knight stood indicted for
feloniously robbing Mrs. Pearce, on the Liverpool Road, in February last, of two
gallons of spirits and a quantity of barley – Guilty The Sydney Gazette 15 June 1816
6 July 1816
COURT OF CRIMINAL JURISDICTION
- On
Tuesday the court re opened at one o’clock; when the several prisoners that had
been convicted were placed at the bar to receive sentence.
Nicholas Knight , for a
highway robbery, attended with some unfavourable
circumstances, received Sentence of Death; previous to
passing which the Judge Advocate earnestly exhorted the
prisoner to prepare himself for that awful change for which
he was consigned by the laws of his Country, as the offence
of which he had been found guilty unfortunately precluded
him the hope of mercy in this world. The Sydney Gazette 6 July 1816
20 July 1816
EXECUTED -Yesterday morning
were executed, (Sydney) pursuant to their sentence, Elizabeth Anderson,
James Stock and
Nicholas Knight
– The criminals walked to their place of execution by their own choice
and died with every appearance of penitence. The Sydney Gazette 20 July 1816
31 August 1816
ABSCONDING PRISONERS
- By
the last advices from the Settlement of Newcastle it appears that two runaways
who had escaped from thence during Captain Thompson’s command and whose names
are
Jeremiah Sullivan and
Thomas Keenan , returned to that Settlement on the 23rd instant,
both severely speared, the former so badly as not to be
expected to live – And also, that 3 men who had deserted so
lately as on the 20th instant, named
Thomas Norton, John Lee and
Isaac Walker, returned on the 24th
all severely speared, who report, that Thomas McCarthy who
accompanied them at the same time they deserted, had been
killed by the natives. These melancholy instances of the
fate of those deluded people who thus venture to desert from
their duty, we should hope would operate as a warning
against any future attempts of this nature, by showing them
what they have to expect from rashly exposing themselves to
the hostility of the natives, rather than endeavouring by
habits of industry and attention to their duty, to open a
path to their future comfort and prosperity. The Sydney Gazette 31 August 1816
1818
11 April 1818
Gypsey Smith -
Gypsey
Smith
- By
the Lady Nelson, which
came in last Saturday morning from Hunter’s River, a prisoner of the name of
William Smith, commonly known by the name of Gypsey Smith, is returned to this
Colony from whence it appears he was missing about the period of the
Cossar’s piratical seizure and taking off. He was delivered over to the
Lady Nelson at Newcastle by order of the Commandant and acknowledged to
having been in the bush nine months at the time of his sudden absence. His wife
was missing also it is stated he was taken in the settlement of Newcastle by the
natives, who at the same time declared that a white woman was still among them
supposed to have been the wife of this man. The Sydney Gazette 11
April 1818
George Napier
George Napier,
assigned to Wilson’s Gang, absconded from
the Prisoner’s Barracks, Hyde Park; he had been
recently returned from Newcastle, from which
settlement he had formerly absented himself for a
length of time. This old bushranger is well known in
the districts of Liverpool and Castlereagh, is about
thirty years of age, stout made, of dark complexion;
slightly pock pitted, and arrived per ship
Fortune. The Sydney Gazette 11
April 1818
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