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Personal Information
Crime
Transportation
Thomas Wilson 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 9, 1839, p6 |
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Convict Notes
1840, 18 July: Thomas WILSON 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: “Thursday, November 7. “Thomas Wilson and William Silverlock were placed at the bar charged with having taken from the person of Archibald Gall, on the night of the 4th inst., while he was passing down Morphett-street, a one pound note and eighteen shillings of silver. “The prisoners pleaded not guilty. “The Advocate-general appeared for the prosecution; Mr Mann for the prisoners. “Archibald Gall, the person from whom the money was taken, was first examined. He said he was passing down Morphett-street on the evening of Monday last, about nine o'clock, when two men came up to him, one of whom stopped his mouth with his hand, while the other put his arm round him, forced him to the ground, and took the sum alleged from his trousers pocket. “Witness cried ‘Murder!’— when one of the men struck him, and said he would take his life if he said a word. They then ran away down Morphett-street, and witness called for the police, who immediately appeared and took the prisoners into custody before they had been out of sight of the witness. “Police Constable Fisher being in Morphett-street, near Mr Chapman’s, on Monday evening, heard a cry for help come from the direction of the Land Office. “He immediately ran off in that direction, and saw two men running from Gall, who said they had robbed him. Witness, and a policeman who was with him, made chase and took the prisoners into custody at the corner of Morphett street and North-terrace, where they made a stop. “Witness never lost sight of them from the time he saw them running from Gall till he took them into custody. Nineteen shillings in silver were found on Wilson; nothing was found on Silverlock. “Wilson received a good character from Mr Hack. “Both were found guilty and sentenced to seven years’ transportation. “The Judge remarked that the robbery was of a very daring description being perpetrated on the public streets of the town. “Had the indictment been properly drawn up, the prisoners might have been found guilty of robbery, for which crime the punishment in this colony is death; but the indictment only charged him with stealing the money, so that the punishment was only transportation.”