322 HISTORY OF 



Mr. Clode called at the time appointed, and 

 While stooping at a table to wi;ite a receipt, he 

 received the first blow of the a$ey from the hand 

 of Jones (Albury's resolution, who it was agreed 

 should give it, failing at the moment,) this fel- 

 low had from some pecuniary transaction been 

 under an obligation, and took this infernal 

 method of discharging it. 



They were convicted on the 4th, and exe- 

 cuted on the 6th, on the spot were the murder 

 was committed. The house was then pulled 

 down and burnt, and the bodies of the two men 

 were hung in chains near the place ; the wo- 

 man's was delivered for dissection to the sur- 

 geons. 



To form a just idea of the shocking aban- 

 doned state of the settlement at this time, it 

 will only be requisite to peruse the following 

 orders, that were issued. 



" From the late increased number of noctur- 

 nal robberies, there is much reason to suspect 

 that the petty" constables, and divisional watch- 

 men are either extremely negligent in the per- 

 formance of their duty, or that they suffer 

 themselves to be prevailed on by the house- 

 breakers to be less vigilant than that duty re- 

 quires, and to connive at their depredations on 

 the inhabitants. A continuance of this unpar- 

 donable remissness upon their part must dispose 

 the more respectable inhabitants to believe 

 them partakers with the theives. It is, there- 

 fore, hereby particularly recommended by the 

 Governor to every officer in the colony, as they 



