Excerpt from The History of the Convict Hulk Success and Success Prisoners

On the authority of an Australian historian writing in The Sydney Bulletin, the leading newspaper of the Antipodes, I find: At the time of the successful revolt of the American colonies the British Government was begin ning to find out that hanging men for petty theft was a. Serious mistake. Anyhow hanging did no good. Trans portation was tried and the great dominion of Australia was founded. The simple fact of the matter is that the penal laws Of England at that time and for seventy years after were a black disgrace to civilization. Women and children were hanged for shoplifting to the value of a pocket-handkerchief. Black Monday opposite the Debt or's Door at Newgate will not bear description.

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