Anyone researching Owen Hargrave SUFFOLK? this may be of interest. From Clunes Gazette November 1868. The gushing gentleman who wrote “Days of Crime and Years of Suffering” for the Australasian has a length met with his deserts. One of the English papers just to hand contained the following:- Owen Hargrave Suffolk, described in the calendar as a journalist pleaded guilty to stealing a black mare a phaeton, and a set of harness, belonging to the landlady of the White Horse Hotel, Ipswhich, and also to obtaining L10 by means of false pretences from one Arthur Gibbons. It appeared from a document handed in by the learned counsel for the prosecution, Mr. Sims Reeve, that in the year 1846 the prisoner had been sentenced to transportation and penal servitude for twenty-nine years and a half. When called upon to say why judgement should not be passed on him, he begged for mercy on account of his wife, aged nineteen and her infant child. The Chief Justice: “Don’t try to impose on me. I know your career. You were married to a widow, obtained her property, deserted her, pretended by a false report inserted in a newspaper that you were drowned, went away with your brother’s child, who cannot therefore by your wife.” (The prisoner here interrupting said, “she is my wife, My Lord.”) “Then,” said his lordship, “if you did marry her, you have added bigamy to your other offences, and I sentence you now to a term of fifteen years penal servitude.” Hope it helps someone untangle a family tree. Cheers Jacqui Central Victoria. www.oldnewscopy.com. "It's Old News!"