| Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons - 1838 - 440 psl.
...of Sir George Arthur) " in order to enjoy the excitement of being sent up to Hobart Town for trial, trial, though aware that in the ordinary course they...must be executed within a fortnight after arrival." Your Committee, however, cannot help referring to a remarkable document with respect to a penal settlement... | |
| 1840 - 540 psl.
...that he had known instances of prisoners at Port Arthur, the penal settlement of Van Dieman's Land, actually committing murder " in order to enjoy the...course they must be executed within a fortnight after their arrival." From the length at which we have dwelt upon the system of assignment, some may be led... | |
| Sir William Molesworth - 1840 - 146 psl.
...use the words of Sir George Arthur) " in order to enjoy the excitement of being sent up to Ilobart Town for trial, though aware that in the ordinary...must be executed within a fortnight after arrival." Your Committee, however, cannot help referring to a remarkable document with respect to a penal settlement... | |
| Herbert Spencer - 1864 - 388 psl.
...would not have had to testify that, in Van Diemen's Land, convicts committed murder for the purpose " of being sent up to Hobart Town for trial, though...must be executed within a fortnight after arrival;" nor would tears of commiseration have been drawn from Judge Burton's eyes, by one of these cruelly-used... | |
| Herbert Spencer - 1864 - 400 psl.
...would not have had to testify that, in Van Diemen's Land, convicts committed murder for the purpose " of being sent up to Hobart Town for trial, though...must be executed within a fortnight after arrival;" nor would tears of commiseration have been drawn from Judge Burton's eyes, by one of these cruelly-used... | |
| Herbert Spencer - 1865 - 400 psl.
...would not have had to testify that, in Van Diemen's Land, convicts committed murder for the purpose " of being sent up to Hobart Town for trial, though...must be executed within a fortnight after arrival; " nor would tears of commiseration have been drawn from Judge Burton's eyes, by one of these cruellyused... | |
| Herbert Spencer - 1871 - 440 psl.
...that, in Van Diemen's Land, convicts committed murder for the purpose " of being sent up to JTobart Town for trial, though aware that in the ordinary...must be executed within a fortnight after arrival; " nor would tears of commiseration have been drawn from Judge Burton's eyes, by one of these cruellyused... | |
| Herbert Spencer - 1872 - 432 psl.
...would not have had to testify that, in Van Diemen's Land, convicts committed murder for the purpose " of being sent up to Hobart Town for trial, though...must be executed within a fortnight after arrival;" nor would tears of commiseration have been drawn from Judge Burton's eyes, by one of these cruellyused... | |
| George William Rusden - 1883 - 768 psl.
...in the harbourless island. Sir George Arthur had declared that convicts at Port Arthur had committed murder " in order to enjoy the excitement of being...must be executed within a fortnight after arrival." So rigid and secure had been Arthur's rule that ) out of 116 runaways from Macquarie Harbour 101 had... | |
| Charles White - 1889 - 710 psl.
...committed murder " in order to enjoy the excitement of being sent up to Hobart Town for trial, although aware that in the ordinary course they must be executed within a fortnight after arrival." The diet of the prisoners was different according to the nature of their offence, which 'determined... | |
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