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A British schoolchild, Alfred Dancey was convicted of murder at the age of 14 and transported to Australia in 1850, after he shot two classmates with a pistol he brought to the school.[1]

Dancey grew up in Bedminster, Bristol.[1]

  1. http://www.convictrecords.com.au/convicts/dancey/alfred/9822
  2. http://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/59770599 - Disagrees with the article content above - would be a massive coincidence if there were two such young people in 1850 shooting someone with a pistol.
  3. http://www.blackkalendar.nl/content.php?key=10857 - Yet another version of the story.
  4. https://www.flickr.com/photos/brizzlebornandbred/2042728733 - Agrees with item 2 above.
  5. http://www.convictrecords.com.au/ships/equestrian - Ship on which Dancey was deported.

References

  1. ^ a b Wilson, Colin. "The Mammoth Book of True Crime", 1998


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