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Six Impossible Episodes: Prison Breaks

Stuff You Missed in History Class

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Prison Breaks in the Uk

For about 80 years, starting in 17 88, people convicted of crimes the u k could be transported to australia as punishment. The women were mary king, mary hurley, mary devon, ellen hurley, margaret shaughnessy, bridget shelton, mary hickey and katherine welsh. A lot of them had been convicted of offences that most people would think of as pretty petty to day. Women in particular tended to have been convicted of things like stealing handkerchiefs or cloth, or pickpocketing. But these women did not stay at large for long. Two men used a ladder that workers had left behind while making

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