Colonial Times (Hobart, Tas. : 1828-1857) Friday 7 December 1849 p 2 Article
Thursday, December 6.
Tho following jury were impanelled:-John Hall, foreman; John Johnson, J. G.Frances, J. Butler, T. H. Stace, Charles Traps, Isaac Wright. William Knight, Arthur Corbett, Wm. Jolly, George Bilton, Archibald Johnson,
William Foster, William Walker, Andrew Kelly, and James Harrison were charged with robbery under arms. On the 9th of November last. Mr. Bartholomew Reardon, who resides at the White Marsh, in the Pittwater district, was with his family sitting down to dinner, when the four prisoners, who were bolters from Port Arthur, armed with three axes and a bludgeon, entered the house, and with imprecations demanded money and rations. Two of them stood over the inmates while the other two stole every article of value they could lay their hands on. They dressed themselves in the best male attire they found, and nearly all the female dresses, bonnets, &c., they destroyed. They then left, taking with them a gun, watch, knife, three loaves of bread, tea, sugar, meat, &c. On the 18th instant, they were discovered with the stolen property in a temporary hut in the bush, by a party of seven, who were in pursuit of them. His Honor briefly summed up and the jury almost immediately returned a verdict of Guilty against all four of the prisoners.
Tho Court adjourned until to-day.