Owen Suffolk an Australian bushranger, poet, confidence-man and author of "Days of Crime and Years of Suffering" (1867). Born in comfortable circumstances in Finchley, London, Suffolk was sent to sea as a youth when his father was ruined, and on return found himself homeless and fell into a life of crime. Charged with stealing in 1844 and sentenced to a year’s detention he was then convicted of forgery in 1846 serving time in Newgate, … Wikipedia
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