biography
| sex:
| male
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| lived:
| (1810–77)
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| biography:
| Bushranger, born in Enniscorthy, Co Wexford, SE Ireland. He was transported to Australia for theft and attempted murder (1827), escaped from a prison at Port Arthur (1837), and took up a career of bushranging throughout Tasmania. After shooting a constable he was sentenced to death (1843), later commuted to life imprisonment on the penal settlement of Norfolk I, where he became a model prisoner. He married a fellow-prisoner, received a pardon in 1853, returned to Hobart where he was appointed a constable, and was for some years caretaker of the Botanic Gardens there. |
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