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Title: Escaped convicts
Description: With the discovery of gold, escaping the convict colony became even more desirable for Vandemonians. The Victorian Police Gazette listed the names of four convicts who had absconded from Van Diemen’s Land and made their way to the goldfields.
Date: 10 November 1854
Published Source: Australian National Dictionary Centre, The Gold Rushes and Australian English: a resource for researchers, teachers and students, Australian National University, 2005, http://www.anu.edu.au/andc/res/aus_words/gold/index.php. [ Details... ]
Rights: This material is provided by the Australian National Dictionary Centre, a joint project of the Australian National University and Oxford University Press Australia.

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