Agency Police Department. Chief Police Magistrate (Bothwell & George Town) - Papers relating to Tasmanian Bushrangers, 1829, 1841, 1843, 1844

A 580

fonds

1840, 1842

423914

Microfilm : CY 1269, frames 180-283 (A 580)

0.02 metres of textual material (1 vol.)

Under Lieut-Governor Arthur's administration, the smaller towns of Campbell Town, Oatlands, Richmond, New Norfolk, and Norfolk Plains had paid police magistrates while military officers helped lay magistrates at Bothwell, George Town, and Oyster Bay.
-- Reference: S. Petrow. 'Policing in a Penal Colony: Governor Arthur's Police System in Van Diemen's Land, 1826-1836' in Law and History Review, Vol.18 No.2, 2000
Sentenced to Port Arthur after several re-offences, Martin Cash met Lawrence Kavanagh and George Jones, both of whom also had long criminal records. On 26 December 1842, the trio managed to escape from Port Arthur and became notorious as 'Cash and Company'. They turned to full-time bushranging operating in the Derwent, Bagdad, Pittwater and New Norfolk Districts. Over the following twenty months, the bushrangers carried out numerous robberies targeting homesteads, inns, travellers, and mail coaches. When caught, Cash and Kavanagh were tried before Justice Montagu at Hobart Town on 14 September 1843 whereupon both men were initially sentenced to death but this was changed to transportation to Norfolk Island.
-- Reference: Australian Dictionary of Biography. Vol.1, 1788-1850. Carlton, Vic.: Melbourne University Press, 1966

1829, 1841, 1843, 1844 ; Correspondence relating accounts of robbery, reporting suspicious persons to the Police Magistrate of George Town, G.S. Davies. Also directing that a party comprising both constables and military visit Shephard's Huts. Includes E. Bowen's account of robbery of station of Robert Taylor and Sherwood.

The State Library of NSW probably compiled these volumes at an unknown date. They comprise accumulated letters and notes on various types and sized papers and were bound at an unknown date.
D.S. Mitchell bookplate inside front cover.

Embossed on spine, "Kavenagh Jones and Cash"