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Crime
Transportation
William Burns was transported on the Kate, departing 4th Dec 1839 and arriving 28th Dec 1839 with 10 passengers.
The schooner KATE departed South Australia on 04/12/1839 with nine prisoners of the Crown. Capt. Birkinshaw.
Kate (generic)References
| Primary Source | "South Australian Register", November 6, 1839 New South Wales, Australia, Convict Indents, 1788-1842 |
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Convict Notes
Name William Burns [Willian Burns] Age 27 Date of Conviction 7 Nov 1839 Place of Conviction Adelaide Estimated Birth Year abt 1812 Vessel Kate Port of Arrival New South Wales Date of Arrival 26 Dec 1839 Noted in the remarks column; Was here before in the same name per ship John 1 for 7 years
1840, 18 July: William BURNS is on a list of prisoners tried by His Honour Charles Cooper in the Supreme Court, Adelaide, and whose convictions carried sentences that included transportation to New South Wales (see The South Australian Register, p5).
1839, 9 November: From the “South Australian Register”, p6: “Wednesday, November 6... “John Whitehouse and William Burns appeared to answer a charge of burglary, by entering the dwelling house of Junea Joyce, Currie-street, and stealing a bed and other articles therein, on the 18th October last. The prisoners pleaded not guilty. “The Advocate-general proceeded to prove the charge. “Mrs Joyce remembers leaving her house secure on the afternoon of the 18th October last. She returned about nine o'clock in the evening and found that her house had been entered by the window, and her bed, bedding, and several other articles, carried away. “Mrs White, who lives near Mr Joyce, happened to be at her door on the evening in question, when she saw a man walking up and down in front of Mr Joyce’s house. He coughed twice, and then witness saw something like a bed thrown out of the window. “A man leaped out of the window upon it, threw it over his shoulders, and walked off with it very fast. In the meantime the man who had been walking up and down ran off in the direction of the London Tavern. “Witness could not say that Whitehouse was one of the men. “Sergeant Wilkie of the police remembered coming up from Hindley street to Currie-street on the evening in question. “He saw Whitehouse coming as it were from Joyce’s house, followed by Burns, who was carrying a bed and some other things. Burns turned down by the end of the London Tavern, and Whitehouse, when he saw witness, kept away to the left. “Witness followed Burns and called on him to stop, and asked where he had got the things he was carrying, and he said he brought them from home. “Witness took the things and took him into custody. He identified a bed and other things produced, and which Mrs Joyce claimed as hers, as being those he found in possession of Burns. “Whitehouse was acquitted. Burns was found guilty of stealing the goods, but not of burglary; sentence—seven years’ transportation.”