On the day following their sentencing a petition was presented to the Lieutenant-Governor Sir John Eardley-Wilmot by Rev. Therry praying that the lives of Cash and Kavenagh might be spared. Eardley-Wilmot granted a reprieve soon afterwards to Lawrence Kavenagh, who was then moved from the Gaol to the Penitentiary.Supreme Court, Austral-Asiatic Review, Tasmanian and Australian Advertiser, (Hobart), 22 September 1843, page 3. The report of Kavenagh's reprieve in The Courier newspaper was scathing; “The life of this miserable and criminal creature has been spared at the moment when death was apparently his only hope”.Kavenagh, The Courier (Hobart), 22 September 1843, page 2. Shortly afterwards Cash also received a reprieve.The Bushrangers, Launceston Examiner, 30 September 1843, page 3. Both Cash and Kavenagh had their sentences commuted to transportation for life.; refer specifically to the ‘Notes’ at the foot of the webpage.
