To this day there is no old lag that was ever exposed to his cruelty but reviles his memory.

I once knew the convict who gave the signal for his murder.

He was sentenced to death, but was reprieved and served a long term of imprisonment.

The murder happened forty-one years ago, yet to this day the old convict commends the murder as a just act of retribution, and when he narrates the story he tells you with bitter passion that the "Colonel's dead, and, if there's a hell, he's frizzling there yet." Captain Foster Fyans, a former Governor of Norfolk Island Convict Settlement, spent the last years of his life in the town I belong to, Geelong, in Victoria.

The cruelties imposed on the convicts under his charge were justified, he declared, by the brutalised character of the prisoners.