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Auction Location:
Melbourne
Date:
7-Dec-2024
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Description:
Sarah Ann hill - found Guilty of Murder and Transported for the Term of her natural life: two court documents recording the proceedings at York Assizes in December 1851 at which hill was found guilty of killing her new-born baby and leaving the body in a bonnet-box on Wakefield railway station. She was initially sentenced to death by hanging but there was a huge outcry and, as this document further records, the sentence was commuted to 'her being Transported beyond the Seas....'. The second document accompanied hill on her removal to a Government Prison. Described as a 'stout strong active woman' she arrived at Hobart in August 1852, one of 220 all female convicts aboard the ship 'Sir Robert Seppings'.
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Category:
Printed & Written Material: Historical Documents