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Colt Price is recalled to Van Diemen's Land and the break-up of the prison mooted. This prompts 'The Forty' who had vowed to kill Price to renew their attempts. Gunshots, strychnine, hut-keeper's plots; betrayal and murder precede the hanging of the ringleader. Seven years later in Victoria at Point Gellibrand where many of the original Norfolk Island convicts were breaking stones - again under Price's command - he was finally battered to death and a near uprising of the convicts quickly put down - hangings followed, etc. Reaction of Victorians to the influx of Norfolk Island convicts interesting. (PB)
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Subjects:
- 1850
Settings:
- Norfolk Island, Australian External Territories,
- Van Diemen's Land (1803-1856), Tasmania,
- Victoria,
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