First Name:
Constable David
Details:
Dismissed from position of constable for improper conduct. Replaced by Patrick Crinion
Source:
Newcastle Morning Herald 13 March 1897
Details:
A resident of Newcastle unearthed a valuable book relating to early convict days in Newcastle containing original depositions of the cases heard at the Newcastle Police Office in the year 1829 - David Newton, sentenced to 50 lashes for drunkenness. William Maybury, the chief wardsman at the hospital stated that the prisoner went to the hospital between the hours of 5 and 6 oclock very much intoxicated
Details:
Patrick Crinion per Cambridge (and to act as Scourger), from 17th May 1832, in the room of David Newton, dismissed for improper conduct
Details:
Granted conditional pardon
Details:
Labourer from Lancaster. Admitted to Newcastle gaol 20 August. To be confined in a cell 7 days save 1 hour daily during which he is to be employed in the purposes of the police in charge of a constable. Discharged 22 August
Details:
Aged 40. Assigned to the hospital in Sydney
Details:
Assigned to road gang 27
Source:
Secondary Punishment
Details:
Return of Corporal Punishment inflicted by Sentence of the Bench in the presence of P.N. Anley, Magistrate. 50 lashes for drunkenness and neglect as scourger. Back much cut but did not bleed
Source:
Ancestry.com. New South Wales, Australia, Gaol Entrance Books. State Archives NSW; Item: 2/2020; Roll: 757
Details:
Admitted to Newcastle gaol from New England district. Sent to Hyde Park Barracks
Source:
Convict Indents. State Archives NSW; Series: NRS 12188; Item: [4/4009A]; Microfiche: 654
Details:
David Newton age 34. Carter from Manchester. Tried at Maidstone July 1823. Sentenced to transportation for life.
Surname:
Newton (Scourger)
First Name:
David (Davis)
Details:
Flagellator from Lancashire. Admitted to Newcastle gaol 13 September. To be confined until further notice. Sent to the Police Office Newcastle 20 September