"Sixty pence, sixty half-pence, and one knife..."

"George Faulkner and Richard Bond have been committed to our Castle, since our last, charged with having assaulted Thomas Holliday, on the King's highway, at Salford, and violently stolen from his person sixty pence, sixty half-pence, and one knife, his property" – The Lancaster Gazette and General Advertiser, 29 December 1821

On 23 March 1822, George Faulkner and Richard Bond were sentenced at Lancaster Assizes to "to be severally hanged by the neck until they be dead" for highway robbery.

On 24 April, Justice John Bayley, Chief Justice, commuted their sentences to transportation for life. On that day, 47 men and two women sentenced at Lancaster Assizes for highway robbery, burglary, stealing in a dwelling house, forgery, horse-stealing, stealing a heifer and sheep-stealing had their death sentences commuted.

Richard Bond was transported to Van Diemen's Land on the Morley. On 31 July 1831, in Hobart, his name appears on a list of convicts granted tickets of leave.

The Lancaster Gazette and General Advertiser, for Lancashire, Westmorland, &c., 29 December 1821, Issue 1073
[no title] DDCM 1/20 24 Apr. 1822, Lancashire Records Office
One Search database (http://onesearch.slq.qld.gov.au), State Library of Queensland
Hobart Town Courier, 30 December 1831, p. 2