User:Peterthrupp/sandbox

Joseph Potaskie, Robert Hunter, Edward Brady and James Flinn have been referenced as robbing Alfred Thrupp house and raping Sarah Thrupp,this is wrong and does Potaskie and the other robbers a disservice. I thought for a long time that Sarah Thrupp had been raped but the confusion arises from the Trove newspaper article below. James Turner is sentenced for a rape which is a separate event to the Thrupp Robbery. See the two Trove articles below. Hobart Town Gazette and Van Diemen’s Land Advertiser Sat 3 Feb 1821 Saturday - This day the Court assembled at one o'clock; when the following prisoners that had been convicted and remanded for sentence, were placed at the bar and the following sentences pronounced : Of Death on-William Franklin, for highway rob- bery,and levelling a pistol at Roger Gavin, a constable, with intent to prevent legal apprehension ; James Turner, for a rape;  Joseph Potaskie, Robert Hunter, Edward Brady and James Flinn, for Mr. Thrupp's robbery ; John Oliver and William Smith, for cattle-stealing; John Procter, Edward O'Hara, Francis Collins, Thos. Clough James Delàny, Joseph Risbey, Benjamin Risbey, Patrick Murphy, and John M'Ginnis, for sheep-stealing ; Daniel Clark, Samuel O'Hara, Pa- trick Coulton, and Christopher Read, for stealing nods from on board, and cutting out the Young Lachlan schooner, then lying in the Derwent River; |olm Higgins, John Hill, and Michael Riley, for several outrages and robberies while in the woods; and Wil iam Jackman, for burglary. John Sullivan, for sheep stealing, transported for life to Newcastle. Hobart Town Gazette 9 Dec 1820 Appears that Sarah Thrupp was not raped the confusion is caused by the death sentences of the four people that robbed Alfred Thrupp house and that James Turner is mentioned before the four Thrupp robbers 'James Turner, for a Rape'. Reference to Hobart Town Gazette 9 Dec 1820 details James Turner charged with rape as per following 'James Turner, charged with committing a rape on a woman, while conveying her across the Bluff to Pitt Water in his boat.'

See also Criminal Jurisdication records (1821 ,reel 1982, citation 2707{SZ804}15, page 221) for Joseph Potaski, Robert Hunter,James Flin & Edward Brady, offence 'Robbery in the dwelling house of Alfred Thrupp at Hobart Town.

And the record (1821 ,reel 1982, citation 2707{SZ804}4, page 43) for James Turner, James offenceis 'Rape of Catherine McGinnis on a boat to kangaroo Point'.