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aunceston to the coast near saint georges rivers when scott took us to preservation island he left us in charge of munro and went away sealing there were only munro and five native women on the island when we landed munro employed us in digging his garden and supplied us with provisions as long as he had any or until his stock run short we then fed upon penguins a schooner belonging to the aguielar a sealing boat belonging to harrington one to williams one belonging to duncan and another belonging to a man called the cobler put in whilst we were there no one of the crew of those vessels attempted to take us away p41 sergeant wilcox and a party of soldiers took us into custody last saturday week and put us on board the mary ann sloop of this port and were landed on the main land below twentyday island from whence we were three days marching to george town where we arrived on last friday the 18 th instant taken before us at launceston this 22 nd day of june 1824 chas cameron jb signed peter archer mulgrave esq signed p42 examination of john perry june 22 nd 1824 decided p43 cornwall to wit the information of sergeant wilcox of his majesty s 3 rd regiment or buffs who being sworn saith i was ordered on the 9 th instant by colonel cameron commandant of george town to go on board mr parishes sloop in consequence of information colonel cameron had received of three crown prisoners being on the island of preservation we left george town on the 9 th and on the 12 th found the three prisoners john perry thomas mitchell and michael brown on preservation island from whence we sailed on sunday evening the 13 th on the william and ann and landed with the prisoners on the main to the northward of twenty day island on the 15 th from whence we marched to george town where we arrived on the 18 th sworn before us at launceston this 22 day of june 1824 john wilcox signed serg bicks signed chas cameron jp signed pa mulgrave esq signed p44 information of serjeant wilcox against 2 runaways found on preservation island on the 12 th of june decided 22 june 1824 runaway convicts p45 cornwall to wit the information of thomas tombs who being sworn saith on friday the 6 th instant my hut on the blake snake near the forest was robbed of a kangaroo rug a large blanket a shoulder of mutton and a bushel of flour john lanc e a servant of mr gibsons told me that a man named john and a man named smith has slept at his hut about three miles on this side of mine the night before my hut was robbed that they had each a bullock cart with them and had gone towards hobart town i went in pursuit to elizabeth creek and in reaching a hut there along with chief district constable pearson i found the prisoner john cavanagh and another man named william smith sleeping upon a bag containing my kangaroo rug and blanket p46 blanket which had been stolen out of my hut the preceeding morning cavanagh said that smith knew nothing about the kangaroo rug and blanket that the bag containing them had been thrown into his cart on the road by a man whom he did not know who had gone forward to hobart town and requested him cavanagh to take the bundle there for him thos tombs signed sworn before me at launceston this 14 th day of february 1824 pa mulgrave esq signed p47 clarendon 17 th june 1824 dr div for your information i beg to inform you the enclosed papers respecting four runaway convicts from the penitentiary who were taken at buffalo plains last night by corporal james wright and three privates and one constable john barefoot away to the expected confinement of barefoot s wife i have allowed him to go home to night and the corporal and party have them now in custody and will deliver them over to the jailor the prisoners phil reardy m heillyer mathm stevenson and joseph twig pa mulgrave esq n police le le le p48 stand charged with robbing sundry goods from two of my shepherd s huts from hutt of colonel mcleod farm and a hut of mr batemans on buffalo plains such of the depositions as i can get by monday sent i will forward to you the arts as are enclosed list are in charge of the corporal the progress as to the robberies will i expect be very clear and i hope the rascals will meet with the punishment they deserve i remain sr din yours truly james cox p49 blank page watermark ruse turners 1820 cox s paper p50 clarendon 10 th june 1824 dear sir i recvd yours of yesterday date with the news the constable that brought him went away this morning without my seeing him or enquiring if there was any letter for you there will not be any opportunity of sending this to you until one of my men go to launceston on monday next having a little business at hobart town together with conveying of the carriage lately gov sorell from there determined me on starting tomorrow morning at day light for that place barring accidents i expect to be back in seven days i now feel the mail of whitefoot p51 he being in such a wretched condition will oblige me again to take the two young men i am at a loss to reason how i can have been so much reduced i wrote you past evening respecting the four convicts taken by corporal thomas white and his party and i now enclose the information of two of mcdonald men and of one of my own men information against them have yet to be taken from mr batemans men at buffalo plains a man of mine by name of william buckby reciting one of the muskets besides the party that took them and i have lends day that they also committed a robbery at the house of thomas grady at the falls as it cannot be any detriment to the publick service i could wish that my p52 man buckby bushby may not be sent for until my return from hobart town as i should wish to be present if they are tried by the magistrates but if they are ordered for trial before the criminal court now to be holden at launceston i trust you will have the goodness to collect any evidence that will tend to convict them as they are a most impudent sett of villains on monday 14 th inst robbed my shepherds hutt in the creek nile on tuesday 15 th inst robbed my shepherds hut of a musket from wm bushby on south esk river opposite gibson s stock yard same evening robbed mr donald hutt on colonell mc leods farm on wednesday evening 16 th robbed mr batmans hutt on buffalo plains and taken the same night by the soldiers and deserve to be severely treated c and further p53 note that a sloth will be sent to the that the penitentiary men are allowed off sunday as i believe all the statements taken i have on those days this probably requires a representation immediately after my return from hobart town i will be in launceston and any matter i can assist you in that regard to be represented on a charge is absolutely necessary for the good of the publick i shall be lastly do it i also enclose a short information of mr donalds the summons is returnable on monday at the police office as a matter of convenience to the complaint this being a jumble of private and publick business i hope you p54 will excuse it please make our complaint to mr mulgrave when i see him i shall request him not to give you leave to go to hobart town again in a hurry as you cannot find your way home in any reasonable time should any convicts make their escape from launceston during my absence please to send an express direct to maxey and have the goodness not to require maxeys service on any acct while i am away i must now prepare for my journey nine o clock friday evening the blacksmith is now at works with my horses shows james henty james cox p55 james cox june 24 th unreadable bushrangers in pencil p56 july 1824 in blue pencil cornwall van diemen s land to wit the information of constable william lawson who being sworn saith about four o clock in the afternoon of friday last the eighth instant i was at mr fields hut near the big swamp at the back of norfolk plains with corporal john bryan and constable thomas etherington the door of the hut was open i saw thomas pawley sitting inside the hut reading a book i said is this my friend pawley he turned his head and i then saw it was thomas pawley he immediately got up and drew a pistol from his breast pocket i immediately presented my musket and told him if he fired i would blow him to pieces he then shifted the pistol from his sight to his left hand corporal bryan stepped up and ordered pawley to throw his pistol down he did not constable etherington picked it up and gave it to the corporal who fired it off it was so heavily loaded that the stock was fractured by the discharge constable etherington searched the person of pawley and took from him one ball a buck shot and a small quantity of gunpowder p57 in a horn i asked pawley where his knapsack was he pointed to one that was lying on the floor empty about a minute afterwards a man named grindly came to the hut the corporal asked grindly if he knew pawley he said he knew him but he did not know he was in the hut pawley said he had only just come to the hut that he had a hut of his own on the other side of the pennyroyal creek where he had a kangaroo rug and a pat or two william lawson signed sworn before me at launceston this eleventh day of july one thousand eight hundred and twenty five no name p58 pawly july 11 th 1825 p59 van diemen s land the information of james laverty who being first duly sworn saith i am an assigned servant to mr abraham walker and have resided for the last fourteen of fifteen months upon my master s farm at the western lagoon under the western mountains at the back of the upper part of norfolk plains and have had charge of a flock of sheep grazing there about six o clock on the evening of sunday last the third day of april instant i returned from my sheep to the hut and when i got within a few paces of it a bushranger name mccabe came towards me and demanded the gun i had on my shoulder i refused to give it to him upon which mathew brady another bushranger presented a double barrelled gun at me and ordered me to give my gun to mccabe i did so and mccabe gave it to a third man who was in company with him and brady whose name is thomas pawley or porley a free lad born in sydney thomas pawley immediately loaded the gun with a ball and kept it in his possession they told me they had taken away everything they wanted from the hut and i perceived that brady had got on a striped shirt belonging to me and that thos pawley had a blue jacket and leather cap on which were my property there was a whole sheet hanging up in front of the hut when i left it in the afternoon about two p60 o clock and when i returned there was only half a sheep hanging up and mccabe went into the hut and brought out an iron pot with a quantity of meat in it and they ate as much as they could then thomas pawley went to the half sheep which was hanging up and took it with him in company with brady and mccabe after they were gone i went into the hut the door of which had been broken open and i then found that three blankets and a rug a blue jacket 2 waistcoats leather cap two shirts a duck frock a white handkerchief and a half a pound of tobacco were missing and had no doubt been stolen and carried away by the three before named bushrangers also a quantity of fat and some cooking utensils and a knapsack which i saw upon mccabes back when he left the hut mc cabe made me taken off a pair of new boots which i had on and took them with him _ i found the lock of the dairy door broken off and a box belonging to me forced open just before they went away brady pulled out a gold watch and said it was half past six o clock they had two dogs with them one of which i have seen with a man named price who is mr field s shepherd at the penny royal creek when they left mr walker s farm they steered in the direction of saltmarshs hut on monday the fourth instant mr white of norfolk plains and three constables came to mr walkers hut p61 remained there all night and yesterday tuesday morning i went with them to topley s hut where they got a man to shew them the way to saltmarsh s hut and ordered me to come and report the matter to the district constable i can positively swear that mathew brady was one of the men who robbed mr walker s hut on sunday last i know him well we lived in the same street in manchester thomas pawley i also know well i have known him for the last twelve months part of which time he was william field s shepherd and i heard these two men call mccabe by his name but i never saw mccabe before brady appeared to be very unwell and had his chin and face tied up mccabe appeared to be quite well i begged of brady to let my gun be returned to me but pawley said he would not give it up for he knew it to be a real go a longer and brady said that it was for pawley they wanted the gun and he would not interfere brady had a double barrelled gun and a double barrelled pistol mc cabe had a single barrelled gun and a double barrelled pistol i believe they were very short of ammunition for they even wanted to take the only two charges of powder which i had in my flask james laverty signed sworn before me at woolmers lake river van diemen s land this 6 th day of april 1825 tho archer jp signed p62 laverty vs pawley 6 th april 1825 jp esq code 4 pc ly general 18 th july 1825 13 jy brady and his gang in pencil p63 cornwall van diemen s land to wit the information of james kermody a private in his majesty s 40 th regiment of foot who being sworn saith i was out with four soldier belonging to my regiment and constable riley yesterday morning at the back of norfolk plains in pursuit of bushrangers about two o clock we were near a hut where james park an assigned servant to william field resides when within about three or four hundred yards of the hut we saw a man come two or three yards out of it with his hands in his breeches pocket and look steadfastly towards us he then went into the hut again and remained there about half a minute the same man came out of the hut went round to the back of it and ran off and crossed penny royal creek three of my comrades pursued him i went into the hut along with constable riley james park was sitting on a bed on one side of the door and this musket standing at the foot of the p64 bed there was a knapsack lying close to the door with some tea sugar and flour in it and a kangaroo rug lying by the side of the knapsack park stated that the man who had ran away was named pawley that he had come to the hut about three quarters of an house before we got there that he had been making up some ball cartridges which he had carried away with him that the musket kangaroo rug kangaroo knapsack and its contents all belonged to pawley that he had never seen him at the hut before that morning and that he had nothing to eat or drink whilst there he further stated that pawley had a pistol slung alongside of his pouch park said that he had been previously very well acquainted with pawley the musket stood three or four yards from the door park sat on the bed 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