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.'
Edward Ned Kelly (1855-1880), an Australian bushranger, was born in June, 1855, at Beveridge, Victoria. He was the eldest son of John Red Kelly, an immigrant from Ireland, and Ellen, also an immigrant from Ireland. Ned Kelly was most known for stealing horses and robbing from banks. Some people think that Ned Kelly is a victim because he and his family were victimized by police. The Kelly’s were blamed for many crimes hey didn’t commit, Fitzpatrick abused Kate Kelly and got away with it and Ned’s mum (Ellen Quinn Kelly) was gaoled for a crime she didn’t commit.
Charles was a serial killer born in Hong Kong and immigrated to the United States then Canada. He convicted (in both countries combined) for Burglary, Kidnapping, Conspiracy, Attempted Murder and Murder.
for gold during the California Gold Rush of 1849 and was a bitter soldier in the
By the age of 14 he was stealing cars. In his teens he took part in stealing tires, running stills, bootlegging, and armed robbery. In 1922, he was committed to a boys home for auto theft. Two years later he was released on parole, but returned in 5 months for a similar charge. He meet Helen Wawzynak in 1928, and later married her. In January of 1931 he robbed a bank in Chicago, Illinois, and was sent to prison for one year to life.
People said he was more than likely the father of at least two of her children. Garner became widely known when she and her family rebelled against their bondage and made a brave escape to freedom. In the winter of 1856, she and her husband Robert, their four children, and Robert’s parents carried out their bold plan. The family fled the plantation and got away by crossing on foot the frozen Ohio River from Covington, Ky., to Cincinnati, Ohio. They sought out their family friend, a black freeman named Elijah Kite, for protection.
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.
to follow his passion to live in the northern wild. His letter to his sister Carine says, “or
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.
well of not been there as he owned a pub outside of the town so he
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.
According to wikipedia Johnny Cash was born in kingsland arkansas, though he was never given a real name, he was called J.r while a child, then when he got older people called him Johnny.When he turned five Johnny helped out on his fathers farm with his mom, dad, and older brother.Johnny had a rough childhood, not only the untimely death of his brother, but his abusive father made things worse.Johnnyjoined the air force as a radio operator in Landsberg am Lech, Germany.where he joined a band called the Landsberg Barbarians.afterhis term he married Vivian Liberto and moved to Memphis where he was a radio salesman, and studied to be a radio announser. Cash where for a record deal at sun records, where he sung mostly gospil, and Sam Phillips the owner of sun records said " go home and sin, then come back with a song I can sell.", cash won over sun records and relese...
...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.
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’.