John Pentley
1794-1843
Died: Sydney, , New South Wales, Australia
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1794-1843
Died: Sydney, , New South Wales, Australia
<p><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <o:OfficeDocumentSettings> <o:AllowPNG/> </o:OfficeDocumentSettings> </xml><![endif]--><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <w:WordDocument> <w:Zoom>0</w:Zoom> <w:TrackMoves>false</w:TrackMoves> <w:TrackFormatting/> <w:PunctuationKerning/> <w:DrawingGridHorizontalSpacing>18 pt</w:DrawingGridHorizontalSpacing> <w:DrawingGridVerticalSpacing>18 pt</w:DrawingGridVerticalSpacing> <w:DisplayHorizontalDrawingGridEvery>0</w:DisplayHorizontalDrawingGridEvery> <w:DisplayVerticalDrawingGridEvery>0</w:DisplayVerticalDrawingGridEvery> <w:ValidateAgainstSchemas/> <w:SaveIfXMLInvalid>false</w:SaveIfXMLInvalid> <w:IgnoreMixedContent>false</w:IgnoreMixedContent> <w:AlwaysShowPlaceholderText>false</w:AlwaysShowPlaceholderText> <w:Compatibility> <w:BreakWrappedTables/> <w:DontGrowAutofit/> <w:DontAutofitConstrainedTables/> <w:DontVertAlignInTxbx/> </w:Compatibility> </w:WordDocument> </xml><![endif]--><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <w:LatentStyles DefLockedState="false" LatentStyleCount="276"> </w:LatentStyles> </xml><![endif]--> <!--[if gte mso 10]> <style> /* Style Definitions */ table.MsoNormalTable {mso-style-name:"Table Normal"; mso-tstyle-rowband-size:0; mso-tstyle-colband-size:0; mso-style-noshow:yes; mso-style-parent:""; mso-padding-alt:0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; mso-para-margin-top:0cm; mso-para-margin-right:0cm; mso-para-margin-bottom:10.0pt; mso-para-margin-left:0cm; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-ascii-font-family:Cambria; mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-theme-font:minor-fareast; mso-hansi-font-family:Cambria; mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin; mso-ansi-language:EN-US;} </style> <![endif]--> <!--StartFragment--></p> <p style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; mso-pagination: none; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="font-family: georgia; mso-bidi-font-family: georgia;">PRINCIPAL SUPERINTENDENT'S OFFICE,</span></p> <p style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; mso-pagination: none; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="font-family: georgia; mso-bidi-font-family: georgia;">Sydney, March 24, 1824.</span></p> <p style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; mso-pagination: none; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="font-family: georgia; mso-bidi-font-family: georgia;">THE undermentioned Prisoners having ab-</span></p> <p style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; mso-pagination: none; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="font-family: georgia; mso-bidi-font-family: georgia;">sented themselves from their respective Em- </span></p> <p style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; mso-pagination: none; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="font-family: georgia; mso-bidi-font-family: georgia;">ployments, and some of them at large with</span></p> <p style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; mso-pagination: none; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="font-family: georgia; mso-bidi-font-family: georgia;">false Certificates, all Constables and others </span></p> <p style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; mso-pagination: none; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="font-family: georgia; mso-bidi-font-family: georgia;">are hereby required to use their utmost Ex-</span></p> <p style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; mso-pagination: none; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="font-family: georgia; mso-bidi-font-family: georgia;">ertions in lodging them in safe Custody :— </span></p> <p style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; mso-pagination: none; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="font-family: georgia; mso-bidi-font-family: georgia;"> </span></p> <p style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; mso-pagination: none; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="font-family: georgia; mso-bidi-font-family: georgia;">5. <strong>John</strong> <strong>Pentley</strong>, Atlas 4, 24, Durham, 5 ft. 5, blue eyes, sandy hair, fair rud. comp.,</span></p> <p><span style="font-family: georgia; mso-bidi-font-family: georgia;">Mr. W. Hutchinson, Eastern Creek. </span></p> <p><!--EndFragment--></p>
<p><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 15px;"><span style="padding-: 0px; padding-right: 10px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-: 10px; min-height: 1.4em; line-height: 1.4; clear: both; display: block; font-family: georgia, serif; : relative; border-width: 1px; border-color: white; border-style: solid; margin: 0px;"><span style="min-height: 1.4em; line-height: 1.4; clear: both; display: inline; font-family: georgia, serif; : relative; border--width: 1px; border-right-width: 1px; border-bottom-width: 2px; border--width: 1px; border--color: white; border-right-color: white; border-bottom-color: #fb7e02; border--color: white; font-weight: bold; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: #ffdf5e; background-: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-style: solid; padding: 0px; margin: 0px;"> </span></span></span></p> <p><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 15px;"><span style="padding-: 0px; padding-right: 10px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-: 10px; min-height: 1.4em; line-height: 1.4; clear: both; display: block; font-family: georgia, serif; : relative; border-width: 1px; border-color: white; border-style: solid; margin: 0px;"><span style="min-height: 1.4em; line-height: 1.4; clear: both; display: inline; font-family: georgia, serif; : relative; border--width: 1px; border-right-width: 1px; border-bottom-width: 2px; border--width: 1px; border--color: white; border-right-color: white; border-bottom-color: #fb7e02; border--color: white; font-weight: bold; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: #ffdf5e; background-: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-style: solid; padding: 0px; margin: 0px;">Sydney Morning Herald 21 June 1842 (Trove)</span></span></span></p> <p><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 15px;"><span style="padding-: 0px; padding-right: 10px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-: 10px; min-height: 1.4em; line-height: 1.4; clear: both; display: block; font-family: georgia, serif; : relative; border-width: 1px; border-color: white; border-style: solid; margin: 0px;"><span style="min-height: 1.4em; line-height: 1.4; clear: both; display: inline; font-family: georgia, serif; : relative; border--width: 1px; border-right-width: 1px; border-bottom-width: 2px; border--width: 1px; border--color: white; border-right-color: white; border-bottom-color: #fb7e02; border--color: white; font-weight: bold; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: #ffdf5e; background-: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-style: solid; padding: 0px; margin: 0px;">John</span> <span style="min-height: 1.4em; line-height: 1.4; clear: both; display: inline; font-family: georgia, serif; : relative; border--width: 1px; border-right-width: 1px; border-bottom-width: 2px; border--width: 1px; border--color: white; border-right-color: white; border-bottom-color: #fb7e02; border--color: white; font-weight: bold; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: #ffdf5e; background-: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-style: solid; padding: 0px; margin: 0px;">Pentley</span> was next given in charge of a</span><span style="padding-: 0px; padding-right: 10px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-: 10px; min-height: 1.4em; line-height: 1.4; clear: both; display: block; font-family: georgia, serif; : relative; border-width: 1px; border-color: white; border-style: solid; margin: 0px;">jury, accused of having illegally appropriated</span><span style="padding-: 0px; padding-right: 10px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-: 10px; min-height: 1.4em; line-height: 1.4; clear: both; display: block; font-family: georgia, serif; : relative; border-width: 1px; border-color: white; border-style: solid; margin: 0px;">to his own use an order for £6 sterling,</span><span style="padding-: 0px; padding-right: 10px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-: 10px; min-height: 1.4em; line-height: 1.4; clear: both; display: block; font-family: georgia, serif; : relative; border-width: 1px; border-color: white; border-style: solid; margin: 0px;">belonging to a person of the name of Fawke,</span><span style="padding-: 0px; padding-right: 10px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-: 10px; min-height: 1.4em; line-height: 1.4; clear: both; display: block; font-family: georgia, serif; : relative; border-width: 1px; border-color: white; border-style: solid; margin: 0px;">a ticket-of-leave holder, who was found dead</span><span style="padding-: 0px; padding-right: 10px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-: 10px; min-height: 1.4em; line-height: 1.4; clear: both; display: block; font-family: georgia, serif; : relative; border-width: 1px; border-color: white; border-style: solid; margin: 0px;">in his bed. Mr. Ogle appeared for the pri-</span><span style="padding-: 0px; padding-right: 10px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-: 10px; min-height: 1.4em; line-height: 1.4; clear: both; display: block; font-family: georgia, serif; : relative; border-width: 1px; border-color: white; border-style: solid; margin: 0px;">soner, but it being a general rule of court that</span><span style="padding-: 0px; padding-right: 10px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-: 10px; min-height: 1.4em; line-height: 1.4; clear: both; display: block; font-family: georgia, serif; : relative; border-width: 1px; border-color: white; border-style: solid; margin: 0px;">no attorney, with the exception of Mr. Nichols,</span><span style="padding-: 0px; padding-right: 10px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-: 10px; min-height: 1.4em; line-height: 1.4; clear: both; display: block; font-family: georgia, serif; : relative; border-width: 1px; border-color: white; border-style: solid; margin: 0px;">can act as barrister before the Court of Quarter</span><span style="padding-: 0px; padding-right: 10px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-: 10px; min-height: 1.4em; line-height: 1.4; clear: both; display: block; font-family: georgia, serif; : relative; border-width: 1px; border-color: white; border-style: solid; margin: 0px;">Sessions, the Chairman intimated that he was</span><span style="padding-: 0px; padding-right: 10px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-: 10px; min-height: 1.4em; line-height: 1.4; clear: both; display: block; font-family: georgia, serif; : relative; border-width: 1px; border-color: white; border-style: solid; margin: 0px;">not entitled to plead; but at the same time</span><span style="padding-: 0px; padding-right: 10px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-: 10px; min-height: 1.4em; line-height: 1.4; clear: both; display: block; font-family: georgia, serif; : relative; border-width: 1px; border-color: white; border-style: solid; margin: 0px;">stated, that as the prisoner might suffer mate-</span><span style="padding-: 0px; padding-right: 10px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-: 10px; min-height: 1.4em; line-height: 1.4; clear: both; display: block; font-family: georgia, serif; : relative; border-width: 1px; border-color: white; border-style: solid; margin: 0px;">rially for want of legal assistance, he was, for</span><span style="padding-: 0px; padding-right: 10px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-: 10px; min-height: 1.4em; line-height: 1.4; clear: both; display: block; font-family: georgia, serif; : relative; border-width: 1px; border-color: white; border-style: solid; margin: 0px;">this case only, willing to allow him to defend</span><span style="padding-: 0px; padding-right: 10px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-: 10px; min-height: 1.4em; line-height: 1.4; clear: both; display: block; font-family: georgia, serif; : relative; border-width: 1px; border-color: white; border-style: solid; margin: 0px;">his client. It appeared that <span style="min-height: 1.4em; line-height: 1.4; clear: both; display: inline; font-family: georgia, serif; : relative; border--width: 1px; border-right-width: 1px; border-bottom-width: 2px; border--width: 1px; border--color: white; border-right-color: white; border-bottom-color: #fb7e02; border--color: white; font-weight: bold; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: #ffdf5e; background-: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-style: solid; padding: 0px; margin: 0px;">Pentley</span> had, by</span><span style="padding-: 0px; padding-right: 10px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-: 10px; min-height: 1.4em; line-height: 1.4; clear: both; display: block; font-family: georgia, serif; : relative; border-width: 1px; border-color: white; border-style: solid; margin: 0px;">some means, got possession of the order,</span><span style="padding-: 0px; padding-right: 10px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-: 10px; min-height: 1.4em; line-height: 1.4; clear: both; display: block; font-family: georgia, serif; : relative; border-width: 1px; border-color: white; border-style: solid; margin: 0px;">and that when suspicion fell upon him, a con-</span><span style="padding-: 0px; padding-right: 10px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-: 10px; min-height: 1.4em; line-height: 1.4; clear: both; display: block; font-family: georgia, serif; : relative; border-width: 1px; border-color: white; border-style: solid; margin: 0px;">stable was despatched to his residence, upon</span><span style="padding-: 0px; padding-right: 10px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-: 10px; min-height: 1.4em; line-height: 1.4; clear: both; display: block; font-family: georgia, serif; : relative; border-width: 1px; border-color: white; border-style: solid; margin: 0px;">whose arrival, <span style="min-height: 1.4em; line-height: 1.4; clear: both; display: inline; font-family: georgia, serif; : relative; border--width: 1px; border-right-width: 1px; border-bottom-width: 2px; border--width: 1px; border--color: white; border-right-color: white; border-bottom-color: #fb7e02; border--color: white; font-weight: bold; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: #ffdf5e; background-: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-style: solid; padding: 0px; margin: 0px;">Pentley</span> crammed the order</span><span style="padding-: 0px; padding-right: 10px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-: 10px; min-height: 1.4em; line-height: 1.4; clear: both; display: block; font-family: georgia, serif; : relative; border-width: 1px; border-color: white; border-style: solid; margin: 0px;">into his mouth, but as the constable did not</span><span style="padding-: 0px; padding-right: 10px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-: 10px; min-height: 1.4em; line-height: 1.4; clear: both; display: block; font-family: georgia, serif; : relative; border-width: 1px; border-color: white; border-style: solid; margin: 0px;">consider such food to be beneficial for the</span><span style="padding-: 0px; padding-right: 10px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-: 10px; min-height: 1.4em; line-height: 1.4; clear: both; display: block; font-family: georgia, serif; : relative; border-width: 1px; border-color: white; border-style: solid; margin: 0px;">constitution, he made the prisoner disgorge</span><span style="padding-: 0px; padding-right: 10px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-: 10px; min-height: 1.4em; line-height: 1.4; clear: both; display: block; font-family: georgia, serif; : relative; border-width: 1px; border-color: white; border-style: solid; margin: 0px;">certain parts of the order, which were pro-</span><span style="padding-: 0px; padding-right: 10px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-: 10px; min-height: 1.4em; line-height: 1.4; clear: both; display: block; font-family: georgia, serif; : relative; border-width: 1px; border-color: white; border-style: solid; margin: 0px;">duced in court, pasted on a slip of paper,</span><span style="padding-: 0px; padding-right: 10px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-: 10px; min-height: 1.4em; line-height: 1.4; clear: both; display: block; font-family: georgia, serif; : relative; border-width: 1px; border-color: white; border-style: solid; margin: 0px;">which were identified by the attesting witness.</span><span style="padding-: 0px; padding-right: 10px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-: 10px; min-height: 1.4em; line-height: 1.4; clear: both; display: block; font-family: georgia, serif; : relative; border-width: 1px; border-color: white; border-style: solid; margin: 0px;">The prisoner was found guilty, and sentenced</span><span style="padding-: 0px; padding-right: 10px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-: 10px; min-height: 1.4em; line-height: 1.4; clear: both; display: block; font-family: georgia, serif; : relative; border-width: 1px; border-color: white; border-style: solid; margin: 0px;">to he worked in irons for one year.</span></span></p>