Martin Cash Early Life Martin Cash was baptised on the 10 October 1808 at Enniscorthy, County Wexford in Ireland. He was George and Margaret Cash, and came from a rather wealthy family. He was literate and had a reasonable education. However, his father was indolent and the boy's education was often neglected. Until Cash was 18, he worked as a farm labourer next door. He also began courting the young woman who lived there, Mary. Mary earned a living by making straw hats and bonnets, and her family also borrowed money from his. One day, Cash saw a rival suitor, named Jessop, embracing Mary. Cash claimed that he shot the man through the window, however, was charged for housebreaking, and sentenced to 7 years transportation. After being imprisoned in Cork gaol for six months, Cash boarded the Marquis of Huntley with 170 other convicts, and sailed from Cook Harbour to Sydney town. Convict Life On the 10th February 1828, Cash arrived in Australia. He was assigned to Mr G. Bowman of Richmond in Hunter Valley, which is 150 km north west of Sydney. For nine years he worked as a stockman, and received his ticket of leave. At that time, he assisted another farmer, John Boodle, with branding stolen cattle, which was unbeknownst to him. When he realised, he decided to flee to Tasmania, and convinced Bessie Clifford, the wife of another man, to come with him. On the 10th of Febraury 1837, they boarded the ship, Francis Feeling. In Tasmania, Cash worked around at multiple farms. In 1840, he was arrested for stealing six eggs valued at a shilling from W. Bedford of Campbell Town, who was his boss. He was charged and sentenced to seven years. In the next year, Cash attempted to escape gaol three times. After the first attempt, he was se... ... middle of paper ... ...4 and 1856. He was also then officially pardoned from his crimes. Later Life Martin Cash moved to Christchurch, New Zealand, for four years and worked as a brothel-keeper. To aid his work and have inside information, he became a constable in the Police Force. His colleagues were skeptical of him, and in March 1860, Cash was sacked and fined. Cash returned to Tasmania in 1863. Afterwards, 'having saved a little money,' Cash said, 'I purchased a farm at Glenorchy where I resolved to pass the remainder of my days in the calm and tranquil enjoyment of rural retirement.' He lived their with his wife and son, also named Martin. Towards the end of his life, he narrated his story to James Lester Burke, who then published it in 1870. On the 22 August 1877, he died from 'Fatty degeneration of Heart with Inflammation of Stomach and Intestines accelerated by Intemperance.'
James T. Johnson was a young man who had a good job working as a construction worker. Although, he had a job and worked every day he still lived at home with his mother. Furthermore, he was the type of young man who went to work on time and after work he would come home. Unfortunately, there were occasions where he would go out with a few of his co-workers on a Friday he still came home afterwards. Nevertheless, he was hiding a secret from his mother that later led to him being arrested. Now, rather than James uses his money he had earned from working, he burglarized homes and garages in the communities in his area. After burglarizing these homes he would then sell the items he had stolen via the internet or a pawn shop in two different counties.
owner of Maplewood, so this made her a slave from the moment she was born. When she was old enough, she became a household domestic, waiting on the family and performing cleaning chores.
The first inmate to enter Kingston Penitentiary was Mathew Tavender who was sentenced to serve three years for grand larceny. He was placed in cell number four and was put two work as a stonecutter two days later. He was whipped on August 30, 1835 which was three months after his arrival, along with inmate number two, John Hamilton.
They lived in Hughenden, where he found nomadic work and his first son, Patrick was born. Bonner did many jobs, for example he was a seasonal worker on the mainland, native policeman of Palm Island and advancing position of assistant worker overseer with responsibility for about 300 people.
well of not been there as he owned a pub outside of the town so he
At the age of sixteen, Clyde dropped out of school to work at Proctor and Gamble. Clyde’s crime streak started with helping his brother steal a small flock of turkeys and transporting them to Dallas to sell for Christmas money. Dallas officers saw the back seat full of live fowl, and pulled them over arresting them both. His brother claimed full responsibility , and they lat Clyde go since he was so small and innocent looking. Clyde soon mat up with a man named Frank Clause. Clyde soon quit his job at Proctor and gamble and began burglarizing small businesses in Dallas, Lufkin, and Hillsboro, Texas. Although Clyde was introduced into the gang by his brother, he soon became accepted and became the leader. Their crime spree started with stealing a couple of cars and burglarizing a few houses.
...ptly stricken by an illness which landed him in the hospital. He died on April 9, only two months before his 92nd birthday.
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Before she could get her little shop going a fire burnt down her business and her house with all of her belongings in 1871. Mary was having an awful time but managed to keep on trying. She finally got a job working with people who wanted to get decent wages and have their working environment improved. She also tried to stop child labor. Her work involved making speeches, recruiting members and organizing soup kitchens and women's auxiliary groups during strikes.
...t and respiratory failure, he was suffering with cancer. He died aged 77. He was laid to rest in the only available plot in Plainfield - next to his mother Augusta Gein.
He then moved along to Liverpool when he was twenty and continued to work during the day and minister during his free time. For some...
to follow his passion to live in the northern wild. His letter to his sister Carine says, “or
This case illustrated that there were real consequences to white collar crime. In addition to paying the fifty million dollar fine, he relinquished another fifty million dollars of his illegal trading profits. (He still had millions remaining, however, from his illegal gains.) His actual prison sentence was three years, yet he served only twenty-two months in the federal prison at Lompoc, California, which was known to have a “country-club” atmosphere.
In 1904 Charles Bean returned to Australia, sailing into Sydney Harbour full of hope for his next adventure and was soon accepted to the New South Wales Bar. As a lawyer, Charles Bean decided to start his own practice. During the process of setting his practice up, however, he began writing articles for the ‘Evening News’, a newspaper Edited by ‘Banjo’ Paterson and worked as an assistant master at Sydney Grammar School. It was at this time that Charles Bean realised he preferred writing and teaching to law. By 1908, Charles Bean had been made a junior reporter for ‘The Sydney Morning Herald’.