Media: EBOOK - download
File format: PDF file 120MB (1133 pages)
Year: (1938) 2023
ISBN: 9781742224640
Publisher: Archive Digital Books Australasia

Police gazettes provided information and instructions to members of the police force. You can expect the New South Wales Police Gazettes to include the following information that will usually list names and sometimes personal details, descriptions with photograph. Addresses and/or occupations may be an added bonus for the researcher:
 - apprehensions
 - complainants
 - deaths in public places
 - escapees and absconders from custody
 - lost or stolen property and stock - names of victims; sketches of jewellery and watches
 - deserting wives, families, etc
 - deserting from military service
 - deserting from merchant vessels
 - inquests
 - missing friends
 - persons suspected or wanted for a crime and warrants issued
 - police promotion examination results and appointments
 - prisoners discharged from gaols
 - prisoners released on tickets of leave (under licence)

SAMPLE ENTRY (from the 5 January 1938 issue):

Stealing from Person.
Darlingliurst.-About 7.30 p.m. on the 31st ult., John Howard, 53 Collins-st., Surry Hills, was robbed of 1 gold-filled engine-turned Waltham watch (J.R.B. 2), and a heavy gold albert, loose bar swivel at each end (J.R.B.168), value £5, whilst in that street by a man NAME UNKNOWN, 23 or 24, 5 ft. 2 in., thin build, dark compl., black hair, sharp features, very sharp nose; navy-blue trousers and vest and a. white open-neck shirt; no hat or coat. Can be ident.

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