Richard Kingsland Way

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D Wong on 8th December 2015

Richard Kingsland Way was transported for ‘obtaining money 35 pounds under false pretences from my master Mr Gregory’. Previous convictions: cloth 3 mths; 7 yrs in 1840 for similar offence served 3 1/2 yrs at woolwich Not sure of the birth date – his conduct record has him as 22 years old on arrival, born C1824. Richard was 5’ 1 1/4” tall, reads and writes, fair complexion, brown hair, light hazel eyes, scar on forehead. Native place: Exeter. He was single and C of E. Father: Richard Brothers: Henry, Thomas, Joseph, Peter. Sisters: Maria, Anna. 11/3/1851: TOL 7/10/1851: TOL Revoked – charged with Larceny under £5. 18/1/1855: Certificate – himself (working for himself?) Richard was again convicted of newspaper robbery – he was working as a groom and occasionally a cook. 26/6/1855 Colonial Times, Hobart: THE NEWSPAPER ROBBERY. Richard Way, free by servitude, was charged at the police court, with feloniously stealing 55 Advertiser newspapers, the property of Messrs. Wilson and Hall. Mr. Benjamin O'Neill Wilson deposed that he was in parnership with Charles Wallace Hall, of the firm of Wilson and Hall, proprietor of the Advertiser newspaper. On Saturday morning witness went into the kitchen and found 9 Advertiser newspapers concealed ; he then went out to the coach-house and asked prisoner where he got the papers: he said he found them in the passage and would take them to the press-room; witness stopped him, but he wanted to go away; afterwards found two parcels of newspapers concealed under the apron of the carriage, and another parcel in the corn bin ; prisoner had access to the press-room, but bad been told hot to go there; the newspapers produced were of the dates of the 21st, 22nd, and 23rd June, 55 in all: some of the papers were folded, and others in sheets as they came off the press. Mr. John Cameron, clerk at the Advertiser office, proved that be saw prisoner and Mr. Wilson scuffling, and assisted in securing prisoner, and that papers of the above dates had been missed, Constable Dorsett deposed that, when he apprehended prisoner he said he had had the papers given to him by a boy named Riley, that he had permission to have what papers he wanted, and that he wished to call Riley as a witness. Prisoner, in defence, said, that during the time he was at Mr. Wilson's, the boys, Riley especially, distinctly told him told him he could take a paper whenever he wanted one. The boy, Patrick Riley, was sworn at prisoner's request, when he said he never gave him any newspapers, but he told him to take Mr. Wilson's paper of a morning, when he came in for it. The prisoner was fully committed for trial. Found guilty and sentenced to imprisonment for 2 years with hard labour.