Martin Cash
Martin Cash ( born October 10, 1808 in Enniscorthy, County Wexford, Ireland; † August 27, 1877 in Glenchory, Tasmania, Australia) was a native of Ireland British convict and Australian bush robber. His fate was very well known in the 1870s as an Irish writer described his life in book form.
Martin Cash was the son of George and Margaret Cash. He worked as a boy on a farm in Wexford and was built in March 1827 because of a criminal act - arrested - it was an armed robbery. Six months after the fact, he was deported to seven years of convict labor to Australia, where he had to work for a farmer in the Hunter Valley. After his release he went to what was then Van Diemen's Land, now known as Tasmania, where he was again sentenced to seven years for theft convict labor in Port Arthur. In the first three years of his imprisonment, he made three attempts to escape; the last succeeded. Cash was taken only after two years, imprisoned again and was given another four years in prison.
Soon after, he fled again with two experienced bushmen, Kavenagh and Jones, from the convict prison, Port Arthur. They overcame the heavily guarded Eaglehawk Neck, which leads to the mainland of Tasmania. The three fugitives then robbed inns, houses of the settlers and the service - without use of force. This earned them the name ' gentlemen bushrangers ' a.
Cash was publicly accused of having killed one of his Gefängnisbewacher. He then risked a visit to Hobart, where he was arrested, was tried and sentenced to death. The death penalty was modified to ten years convict labor on Norfolk Iceland. In March 1854, shortly before the Transportation of convicts was finished, he married Marry Bennett ( 1824-1879 ), a woman convict from County Clare. Six months later he was released and went back to Tasmania, where he worked in Hobart for the Cascades Agricultural Settlement and as overseer of the government gardens. According to the general prisoner amnesty in May 1856 he went to New Zealand for four years. After his return he acquired the property in Glenorchy in Tasmania and worked until his death there. He left behind his wife. His son Martin, who was born in 1855, died already in 1871.
The charm, kindness and life of cash attracted the attention of James Lester Burke, an Irish writer who had met him before his death and wrote down his career. Burke published in 1870 in Hobart, Cash's fate in book form, reaching with this book several editions. He gave the experiences of cash in a highly exaggerated form again, but thus achieved a great deal of attention.