Three Convicts Escape From Port Arthur, November 1843 hand-written letter from a Police Magistrate enlisting help in the re-capture of three escapees. The letter reports that two men had demanded provisions from a Mrs Brown at Muddy Plains, and that it was supposed that these were two of the three men who had escaped on Sept.25th 1843. The third escapee, William Westwood, also known as 'Jacky-Jacky' was a notorious bushranger from NSW but he had already been recaptured in October.