SENTENCE REMITTED 1878
NLA Catalogue
Title Samuel Paul, native, taken at Port Arthur, 1874 [picture].
Date 1874.
Extent 1 photograph on carte-de-visite mount : albumen ; 9.3 x 5.6 cm. on mount 10.5 x 6.4cm
Link: https://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-142921214
Samuel PAUL was 15 years old when he was imprisoned at the Hobart Gaol on 26 March 1868 for gambling. He was a minor, locally born, and not a convicted felon transported to Tasmania before 1853 when transportation ceased. His short sentence and date of incarceration in 1868 precluded being photographed because the systematic photographic documentation of prisoners did not commence until 1872 when the Attorney-General the Hon. W. R. Giblin commissioned commercial photographer and government contractor Thomas J. Nevin in accordance with regulations in NSW and Victoria.
POLICE RECORDS
Samuel Paul, 15 yrs old, was sentenced on 26 March 1868 to one month for gambling, discharged on 1 April 1868. Eighteen months later he was convicted in the Supreme Court Hobart for rape, and sentenced to death.
Samuel Paul - "native" i.e. locally born - was convicted of rape and sentenced to death at the Supreme Court Hobart on 14 September 1869.
Samuel Paul was reprieved, term reduced to 15 years and discharged from the Hobart Gaol on 20 March 1878, sentence remitted. He was photographed at the Hobart Gaol on transfer from the Port Arthur prison in 1876 by T.J. Nevin, asssisted by his brother Constable John Nevin on release.
Source: Gaol for Males, Campbell-Street, Hobart Town: report for 1875 (Legislative Council)
https://www.parliament.tas.gov.au/__data/assets/pdf_file/0027/31599/lc1876pp47.pdf
Samuel Paul, native, free, was transferred from the Port Arthur prison to Hobart in 1876.