The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1842-12-09 00:00:00

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TRANSPORTS FROM SIDNEY.—From the Hobart Town
June 17_)—Twenty prisoners, of the doubly and

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trebly convicted class, arrived nere by the MariaaWatsjon on
the Bth instant. Upon their passage down they twice at-
tempted to take the vessel; once they even endeavoured to
set her on fire. They were received into the penitentiary
upon their arrival ; and, the very first night, eight of the
number succeeded in freeing themselves of their irons, with
the determination of effecting their escape, by rushing upon
the constables at the gate, just
tha Hind* TT previous to their bemgslocked

up tor the nignt. Upon this
occasionn a small double-
barrelled pistol was found secreted in oue of the loaves of
bread in their possession. It is supposed that,theiyn
must,spite
of the vigilance exercised in searching
them. they
into the
in some way or other, have brought the pistolded to have
penitentiary with them ; they, no doubtti,eaieten
with whom they
used it as an intimidation with those n
ar
In consequence of
came in contact, as it was not loaded-
made by these misguided
this resolute attempt to escape lEwatched ; and Mr. Gunn,
men they were still more strictly
almost passed into a proverb,
whose well-known vigilance has
eNtra men on patrole during the
did so ; for, on Sunday night
was on the alert, and placedt
he
tihnamade a still more daring effort to
night. It was fortunate
last, several of them a
They had no ordinary difficulties to con-
effect their escape-
he strict daily search to which they were
tend against •!
forp -wed them of their previous tools, consisting
subjected had (I,cd rtzwo knife-blades converted into saws : they
of the pistol, a
were, moreove
watched by one trusty man in the .--
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...e same room
.v., and another outside the door. During the pre-
had... made a great outcry for water ; and from
ich some had been carried to them, it appears
that they succeeded in wrenching off the handle, which they
broke l ,
With these rough tools they commenced,
as
soon !'
as they. were locked up for the night, . to make a hole
in fa the wall of their room, large enough for a man to
creep through. They previously seized and gagged the man
iri the room with them, and then worked away, in a quiet and
dexterous manner, at the wall, placing the bricks noiselessly
down on a blanket. They had also torn up other blankets,
and muffled their irons, to prevent the clinking. In the
course of the night some of them succeeded in getting through
the aperture, and thus gained access to the back yard. At
this juncture, the man stationed outside the door thought he
heard a clinking sound, and bawled out most lustily to the
one inside to know if all was right, and not receiving any an-
swer seized a piece, ran out into the yard, and fired it. In
an instant Mr. Gunn and all the constables inside and out-
side were on the move. The prisoners also were not idle,
for in an incredibly short space of time three or four were ob-
served to have gained the summit of the penitentiary wall.
A constable immediately levelled his piece and pulled the
trigger, but the gun missed fire ; two other constables pre-
sented their pieces and were about to fire, when the men who
were on the wall called for quarter, and surrendered at dis-
cretion. They have since been very heavily ironed, and still
more closely guarded, and, we understand, will shortly be
sent down to Port Arthur.

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