 A memorandum was sent to the Governor, Sir John Young and the Executive Council.In the end, neither the Governor nor the ministry decided to interfere with the sentence imposed on either of the Clarkes.They were visited by their two sisters, their brother Jack (brought in from Cockatoo Island Prison), and their uncle Mick Connell (in gaol in Sydney awaiting his trial as one of their harbourers under the "Felons’ Apprehension Act" for supplying food, gin and ammunition to the bushrangers in October 1866 as evidenced by his brother's 20-year-old pregnant lover, Lucy Hurley).