James_Dalton

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James Dalton was born about 1892 at Browness near Carlisle. He died from cancer on 28 December he was already a hard case. On 6th of March 1835 on a sentence of seven years and only two weeks later received a further 18 months for stealing a bible James Dalton was a robber. He was arrested in Tasmania in 1853 for murdering and got sent to jail and tried to make a getaway he liked to kill boatman he also murdered an house watcher. 14th of August James Dalton raped a girl called marry Willis and spent another two years in chains. On 28 December 1852, he and five other convicts escaped from Port Arthur. Four of them drowned when trying to swim past Eaglehawk Neck, but Dalton and Andrew Kelly survived . =====