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Personal Information
Crime
Transportation
Christopher Fanning 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, Sat 9 Nov 1839, p6 |
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Convict Notes
1840, 18 July: Christopher FANNING is on a list of prisoners tried by His Honour Charles Cooper in the Supreme Court, Adelaide, and whose convictions carried sentences of transportation to New South Wales (see The South Australian Register, p5).
Christopher FANNING was one of nine prisoners sentenced to transportation, and who were sent aboard the Kate following their convictions in the Supreme Court Criminal Sittings, Adelaide, South Australia, between November 4 and 7, 1839. 1839, 9 November: From the South Australian Register, p6: “Tuesday, November 5. Christopher Fanning, a bullock-driver, was charged with stealing four tumblers and a wine glass [on October 27, 1839], the property of Mr. George Hepenstal. The prisoner pleaded not guilty. “It appeared that the prisoner had taken a load of goods from Port Adelaide to the town, that the tumblers and glass had been taken from a package on his dray, and that they were afterwards found in the pockets of the prisoner's jacket. Mr. Richman, the prisoner's counsel, set up a plea of drunkenness, and produced evidence to show that the prisoner was in a state of beastly intoxication. “The Judge, however, told the jury that drunkenness was no excuse, for if it were, every person intending to commit a crime might get himself drunk before doing it, and then plead his drunkenness as an excuse. “The jury, therefore, found the prisoner guilty and he was sentenced to seven years' transportation.”