Foto de stock - The Convict Brick Trail at Cambell Town, Tasmania, Australia. The Trail commemorates the approximataely 75,000 convicts transported from England to Tasmania between 1803 and 1853. Many passed through or worked at Cambell Town. Irishman Alexander Pearce, 1790 - 1824, arrived in Van Dieman's Land (Tasmania) on board the Castle Forbes with a sentence of 7 years for stealing six pairs of shoes. He and seven others escaped from Macquarie Harbour and faced with starvation killed and ate each other. Pearce was the lone survivor. After his recapture the magistrate did not accept his story of cannibalism believing he was inventing it to protect his fellows whom the magistrate thought were still at large. Another escape attempt ended in him being captured again, this time in possession of human flesh taken from his fellow escapee whom he had murdered. He was hung.