First Name:
Constable Thomas
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Assaulted by Thomas Clarkin
First Name:
Constable Thomas
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Charged with perjury by Henry Eckford
First Name:
Constable Thomas
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Charged with ill using a woman who he was taking to the lockup
First Name:
Constable Thomas
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Fined for keeping pigs within forty yards of High St. Charge brought by Charles M. Clark
First Name:
Constable Thomas
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Assaulted by Ann and John Tabenor while at the Rising Sunn Inn
First Name:
Constable Thomas
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Bitten, kicked and hit, his clothes torn, in an assault by John Cannon
First Name:
Constable Thomas
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Dismissed from Police force after being charged with gambling in a public house
First Name:
Constable Thomas
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Commended for his conduct by magistrates after he apprehended John McDermott for wounding Stephen Mathews
First Name:
Constable Thomas
Place:
Maitland Quarter Sessions
Details:
WOUNDING WITH INTENT. John McDermott was indicted for wounding Stephen Matthews, at Wee Waa, on the 10th September, 1850, with intent to do bodily harm. It appeared from the evidence of Stephen Matthews, John Ketland, John Reading, and Thomas Rushton, that on that day Matthews, a carpenter, working for Mr. Loder at Wee Waa, met the prisoner and another man at the public-house there, and treated them to a glass each; the three men then left the inn together, and went to Mr. Loder s station; there they had some rum in a hut, seven or eight men drinking among them a pint of rum; the prisoner, who was not drunk, but under the influence of liquor, drew his knife, and flourishing it, swore he d rip up any man who came near him; he got close to Matthews and told him he d drive that into him, and then struck him with the knife in the breast, the knife entering still stopped by the handle; Matthews bled greatly, and going into another room where prisoner had gone, he asked prisoner what he did that for, telling him he had killed him; prisoner said, - Well, if I have begun it I ll finish it, and he seized a fire-peel and knocked down Matthews with it, striking him on the back of the neck, and he struck him a second blow with the peel. Matthews and the lad Ketland said that no words or quarrel of any kind preceded the attack by the prisoner, but Reading said that he heard prisoner say that he was the flash cock- man, and heard Matthews say that prisoner was no flash man, to pull out a knife; some minutes elapsed after this, Reading said, when as Matthews was talking to another man, prisoner went up to him and stabbed him. Matthews said he still suffered from the effects of the stab, the sear of which lie showed. Constable Rushton deposed that bearing the uproar at the hut, he took another constable with him and went to the place; he found prisoner still in the hut, flourishing the knife produced, and swearing he d rip up any man that came at him, several persons being then in an inner room; witness seized the prisoner s hand, and threw him down, and the other constable took the knife from him; the men inside then rushed out; the prisoner had been drinking, but could walk and talk well. Rushton de- scribed the state he found Matthews in, and produced Matthews s bloody shirt; prisoner told witness, after he was apprehended, that he should be hanged, but he did not care, he d have ripped up the guts of any one of them that had come out of the room. In defence, prisoner simply said he was drunk, and didnt know what he was doing. The jury returned a verdict of guilty. The prisoner was sentenced to be worked seven years on the roads, the first two years in irons.
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Constable. Arrested Jamieson and Mullaney
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Charged with perjury by Henry Eckford
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Wife gave birth to a son on 22 September
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Employed by John Single at Summerhill station in 1847. Threatened by John Allen
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Witness at the trial of John Blaney
Place:
Muswellbrook Police Office
Source:
Criminal Court Records. Muswellbrook Court of Petty Sessions, Bench Books 1838 - 1843
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Eugene Quinn, charged with embezzlement. - Peter McIntyre sworn, deposed - the prisoner at the bar was a hired servant of mine and employed by me in the capacity of clerk and store keeper. He was so employed under an agreement at the rate of forty pounds per year. The prisoner has been upwards of two years in my service. In consequence of repeated drunkenness and disorderly conduct, I found it expedient to place a man in his place over the store. I placed a written notice to this effect on the store. I gave the prisoner five pounds on account of wages and left him to balance his accounts and settle his books. I placed a man of the name of Watt in his place and then left the farm for Sydney. While in Sydney I received a letter from the prisoner which I now produce, calling upon me to pay him the sum of twenty four pounds sterling, balance of wages and also his salary for the current year and stating that he had been obliged to the alternative of leaving my establishment.....Quinn took with him the farm account books and refused to give them up until his demands had been met. Witnesses in court David Watts and Alexander Campbell who was superintendent to Peter Mcintyre, and Donald McPhee who was employed as sheep overseer to Peter McIntyre, Thomas Rushton who was an assigned servant, James Attwood, ticket of leave holder and brickmaker of Abermain and Patrick Bourke, assigned servant. Prisoner was committed for trial
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Granted extended conditional pardon
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Age 28. Assigned to Peter McIntyre
Source:
Ancestry.com. New South Wales, Australia, Gaol Description and Entrance Books, 1818-1930
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Thomas Rushton, admitted to Newcastle gaol as a debtor
Surname:
Rushton (Ashton)
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Charles Staines indicted for cutting and maiming Thomas Ashton. Case failed as the name of the wounded man was Thomas Rushton not Ashton