The Sydney Monitor and Commercial Advertiser Friday
9 April 1841
George Edwards was
indicted by the Clerk of Arraigns, for feloniously and by force of arms, against the peace of our Lady the Queen, her
Crown and Dignity, on the 9th March, 1840.
Robert Turner - I
live at Maitland; on the 5th March I was travelling from Black Creek
towards Maitland, when the prisoner suddenly rushed out of the bush,
armed with a musket, which he presented at me, and ordered me to stop; he
then desired me to ride off the road into the bush; I rode in; when I had
ridden about one hundred yards into the bush, he said to get off and give him
my boots.; I said my mare was young and would not stand; he said, tie her to a sapling;
I did so, and pulled off my boots, which he made me throw to him; he then bade me
pull off my coat, which I also threw to him; he then said, go on; I was about
to take the mare, when he said, leave the horse, it is the identical thing I
want ; I then proceeded on. On the night of the 6th March, the mare returned to
her stable. In about a fortnight or three weeks afterwards I saw my coat at the
lock-up.
William Holland--I am
a constable at Patrick’s Plains when I apprehended prisoner he
had one shilling
and three half pence on his person; he called to one of the men who stood near
him to fetch him his hat and coat ; the coat is the same one sworn to by Mr.
Turner. After some unimportant questions, the jury, without retiring,
found the prisoner guilty and he was sentenced to be transported for 15 years.
The
Sydney Herald Saturday 10 April 1841
Michael Ryan was indicted for
stealing five calves, from the property of Alexander Paterson, at Black Creek,
on the 23rd February, and Michael Healy, as an accessory before the fact. As this case rested solely on the evidence of
an approver, the jury returned a verdict of not guilty.
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