b'55381 3831839 TRAVEL PASS for SAMUEL BONDFIELDBARBER, William Henry10th November 1839 permission issued and signed at theThe Case of W.H. Barber: containing, Copies of all the Police Office, Launceston for Samuel Bamfield (an incorrectDocuments recently submitted to the Right Hon. Sir Georgespelling), a Prisoner holding a Ticket of Leave, to travel fromGrey, Bart., Secretary of State for the Home Department;Launceston to George Town where he was to report to theA Letter from Norfolk Island, showing the revolting cruelties Police Office there. His physical description is provided into which Mr. Barber was there subjected. And a Narrative manuscript on reverse: 25 years old, fresh appearance; a labourerof the Steps by which his Innocence has been established who had arrived aboard Sir Charles Forbes (in July 1830). and his Deliverence effected. To which are now added Bondfield was 17 when convicted in 1829. The Bath Chroniclethe Observations of the Legal and Public Press.& Weekly Gazette for 3 September 1829 provides the report[London; Effingham Wilson, 1849] Seventh Edition.on the Somerset Assizes and lists initial death sentencesOctavo, 148pp; some dusting early and late; bound for Samuel Bondfield and his co-accused, Thomas House,in more recent brown morocco, spine with raised convicted of burglary in the dwelling-house of John Ralphbands, gilt, gilt decorations, marbled endpapers.at South-Petherton. Both of them arrived in Van DiemensRare, as are all editions of this work, which wentLand, with sentences for 14 Years Transportation. through at least seven editions in the first few $7501,000 months of 1849 and ten by 1866.William Barber, a highly respected solicitor, spentseven terrifying years as a convict on Norfolk Island until 382 his innocence was finally proved. Barbers experience 1841 TRAVEL PASS for JOSEPH TOOGOOD was a terrible one, and a disgrace to an allegedly civilised21st August 1841 permission issued and signed by Henry society. His exposure of the horrors of Norfolk Island was Dalway (in the absence of the A.P.M.) for Joseph Toogood, instrumental in the reform of the convict system which a Prisoner holding a Ticket of Leave, to travel from Georgeled ultimately to the abandonment of the penal settlement Town to Whirlpool Reach where he was assigned to work forthere. [The Davidson Collection - Second Sale, February Mr. James Barrett until the 29th September 1841. His physical2006. Lot 305]. With Davidson Collection bookplate.description is provided in manuscript on reverse: 32 years old,$400600 fresh appearance; a sawyer who arrived aboard the Argyle.Joseph Toogood [1808 - 1842] was found guilty of House383ABreaking at the Somerset Assizes and was sentenced to Transportation for Life. He arrived in Van Diemens Land in AugustVictorian Parliamentary Papers: August 1856 1831 aboard the Argyle. He had been charged with conspiracyTRANSPORTATION: Despatch from Major-General Macarthur while on board and was removed on arrival to Macquarieto the Secretary of State, Relaive to Transporation.; December Harbour, one of the harshest penal settlements. In October1858 EXECUTION OF CRIMINALS. Report of the Sheriff, 1832 he received 25 lashes for refusing to work as a sawyer.relative to recent executions at Her Majestys Gaol, Melbourne.; He obtained his ticket-of-leave sometime before 1840 but gotOctober 1859 PENAL DEPARTMENT. Report of the Inspector-into a drunken brawl at a pub in Launceston in SeptemberGeneral.; August 1883 Deportation to Australia of Approvers at 1842 and appears to have died as a result of the injuries hethe trials for certain murders in Phoenix Park, Dublin. (4 items).sustained. [A transcript of the statements of two witnesses$200300 to the Coronial Inquest into his death accompanies this lot.]$7501,000 381'