Robert Cotterall, alias Blue Cap, sentenced April 29th, 1868. Served six years, one month. No previous conviction. James Boyd, alias McGrath, sentenced February 24th, 1864. Served nine years, three months. Previously sent to gaol for five years for horse stealing. Thomas Cunningham, alias Smith, sentenced April 9th, 1867. Served seven years, one month. No previous conviction. Charles Hugh Gough, alias Wyndham, alias Bennett, sentenced April 9th, 1867, served seven years, one month. Previously sentenced to three years for assault with intent to rob. Thomas Dargue, sentenced March 28th, 1867. Served seven years, two months. No previous conviction. Henry Dargue, sentenced March 28th, 1867. Served seven years, two months. No previous conviction. John Kelly, sentenced March 11th, 1867. Served seven years, two months. Previously sentenced to two years for embezzlement. Edward Kelly, sentenced January 14th, 1867. Served six years, seven months. No previous conviction. James Smith, sentenced April 15th, 1866. Served seven years, one month. Previously sentenced to three years for horse stealing. John Foran, sentenced October 18th, 1867. Served six years, seven months. No previous conviction. John Williams, sentenced to death January 14th, 1868. Sentence commuted to fifteen years' penal servitude. Served six years, four months. No previous conviction. William H. Simmons, sentenced April 6th, 1868. Served six years, one month. Previously sentenced to ten years on two charges of larceny. William Taverner, sentenced April 5th, 1867. Served five years, one month. No previous conviction. Daniel Taylor, sentenced October 24th, 1865. Served eight years, one month. No previous conviction. John Bow, sentenced February 26th, 1863. Sentence death, commuted to imprisonment for life. Served eleven years, six months. No previous conviction. John Bollard, sentenced October 19th, 1869. Served four years, seven months. No previous conviction. All these prisoners were very young men, little more than boys, when they were convicted; and, of the twenty-three, sixteen had had no charges brought against them previously to their arrest for highway robbery. The four others who had been previously convicted of horse-stealing were cattle duffers and horse planters, which had been, a few years before, scarcely considered to be crimes by the residents of the districts in which these young men were born; although the law, when it came to be enforced in these districts, called these acts criminal. It was said that if Gardiner was to be released these young men, who had been led away principally by his example, should also have their sentences remitted.