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Saturday, December 15, 2012

JOHN MAWBAY

The Courier, Hobart, Thursday 9 October 1856

QUARTER SESSIONS.-THIS DAY.
Before Joseph Hone, Esq., (chairman), Askin Morrison and John foster, Esquires.
The Court met to-day for the purpose of passing sentence on the prisoners convicted at the Session.
... John Mawbay and his companion Dobson, the former free by servitude, were severally sentenced to ten years' penal servitude.
Dobson originally came into the colony under a ten years' sentence, and would have been free next year.