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Herbert Owen arrived on the
Exmouth
in 1831 after receiving a sentence of transportation for Life in Denbigh. He was
assigned to
William Kelman at
Kirkton in the Hunter Valley.
He absconded from Kirkton in October 1831 but was
apprehended a week later. He absconded again in 1833 and was suspected of committing an
outrage on an aboriginal at
Glendon on 29th November
1833.
A Reward of Twenty Pounds was offered
to be paid to 'any Person or Persons who may apprehend and lodge the said
Herbert Owen, one of the 'Hunter river marauders' in any of His Majesty's Jails.' The description posted stated
that he was a top sawyer from Carronshire.
Ruddy
complexion, light brown hair, brown eyes, perpendicular scar over right eye,
scar on nose, scar right side of chin.
He was captured again and returned to the Singleton area and absconded from the
custody of a constable in March 1841. Reward notices continued to be posted in
the Government Gazette for the next few years. Herbert Owen was still at large
in 1848.
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