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• Auction House:
  Leski Auctions
• Sale Name:
  Australian & Colonial
• Sale Date:
  15 Jul 2018 ~ 12noon (AEST)
• Lot #:
  388
• Lot Description:
  PLEASE REVOKE THIS TICKET-OF-LEAVE: 11 April 1856 mss report to the Chief Magistrate written from Kingston Police Office
  The 4-page document recounts a remarkable series of events which appear to have taken place in the district of Cygnet. George YOUNG [Ticket-of-Leave holder who had arrived aboard "Runnymede" in March 1840 having been sentenced to 10 years Transportation] has just been convicted of "Harbouring in his premises....a young female aged about 14 years....and the harbouring being of a most gross nature - the girl having been found....undressed in the defendant's house at the hour of midnight in company with the defendant and his wife." The report goes on to "bring under special notice the gross misconduct of a Ticket-of-Leave holder named Ellen DONNEGAN [probably Eliza DUNNE, "Blackfriar", 7 years] residing at Port CYGNET]. The woman recently proferred a serious charge of assault against one Roger DUGGAN......[later] she declared on oath that the charge she had proferred against Duggan was not true and that he had not beaten her as she had alleged." Charged with gross misconduct, she was sentenced to six months imprisonment and the recommendation that her Ticket-of-Leave be revoked and that she be forced to leave the District appears to have been upheld according to the additional notes on the last page.
• Estimate:
  A$300 - 500
• Realised Price:
  *****
  

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• Category:
  Collectables

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