[TASMANIA; CONVICTS] Police magistrate’s case summary against recidivist convict Patrick McKone, one of the longest-serving prisoners in the Van Diemen’s Land penal system. Flowerdale (Upper Esk), Mar

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Manuscript in ink, 2 pp., foolscap folio (320 x 200 mm); original folds, short tear at top edge (no loss), otherwise well preserved. Case summary prepared by an unnamed police magistrate at Flowerdale, near Wynyard, northwest Tasmania, dated 12 March 1846. March 12 46. P[olice ] M[agistrate], Flowerdale. Patrick McKone, Coromandel. TL, Life. Larceny of one coat value 5/-, one jacket value 2/-, one pair of trousers value 4/-, one waistcoat value 6d, three shirts value 6/-, the property of George Simpson. Plea Guilty. G. Simpson states These articles here produced are my property, they were stolen from me on Monday last. The prisoner came to my house that day, and asked for a drink of water. I told him to go inside for it. He went in and I did not see him again. I missed these things from the room about twenty minutes afterwards. Constable Mellor states I apprehended the prisoner on Monday night at Residence. I found these articles in his possession. Sentence: Life with hard labor Eighteen Months. The document is docketed on the verso: March 46 / Summary cases . Patrick McKone had been convicted of larceny at the Sussex Assizes in 1819 and was sentenced to transportation for 7 years. He arrived in Van Diemen s Land on the Coromandel at the end of March 1820. He became a repeat offender virtually as soon as he stepped off the boat, as this report in The Hobart Town Gazette , 25 March 1820, tell us: Patrick McKone, a prisoner who only landed the day before from the Coromandel, wa

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