Source: Hobart Town Gazette, 4 March 1825

On Saturday last four men, named Samuel Thomas Fielding and James Chamberlain, for sheep-stealing, and Stephen Lear and Henry Fry, for burglary, expiated their offences on the scaffold within the walls of Hobart Town Gaol. - Let us hope that their shameful end will operate with advantage as a caution to their criminal survivors: for transgressions have become so numerous that the law must in future take its rigid course.