Granny hides guns where the unarmed men can't find them and they soon realise that the men are escaped convicts.

There were escaped convicts among them.

They were quite good; they really had me believing they were escaped convicts, for a while.

We might be escaped convicts, or rebels against the government, or bandits.

The Field of Mars Common was considered dangerous, as escaped convicts and bushrangers were known to frequent the area.

On one occasion escaped convicts arrived in the Bay of Islands.

Out of town bank robbers, scam artists, escaped convicts, and vagrants occasionally found their way to Mayberry.

Weeds, like field mice or escaped convicts, prefer to scatter.

Convinced the sealers were escaped convicts and despite their protests he took them back to Sydney to the chains.

There were no vagrants or escaped convicts in the area, nor any townspeople with a record of assault.