Media: EBOOK - download
File format: PDF file 18MB (336 pages)
Year: (1879-80) 2023
ISBN: 9781921230646
Publisher: Archive Digital Books Australasia

During 1879 the Queensland Police Gazette was issued once a month, which changed to fortnightly from the beginning of 1880. This truly is an historian's goldmine of information which cannot be found elsewhere. Apart from any changes within the police force which are all listed, information is also given on housebreak-ins, robberies, arson, murders, lost horses and cattle, deserters, escaped prisoners, reports on those released, even deaths reported to the police (together with their place of death and cause of death given). Notices from interstate police gazettes are sometimes included.

SAMPLE ENTRIES (from the 17 January 1880 issue):

Felonies and Offences not Otherwise Described
Alexander Feddes Greig is charged, on warrant issued by the Melbourne Bench, with embezzling several sums of money amounting to about £800, the property of James Patterson, in the month of May last. Description:- About 34 or 35 years of age, 5 feet 7 or 8 inches high, stout build, dark complexion; black hair, beard, whiskers, and moustache (beard clipped rather short); speaks slowly, parts his hair in the centre; respectable dress and appearance, is good-looking. His father was a Customs officer for many years in New Zealand, and his wife is a daughter of a Mr. Fisher, Dunedin, where they were married. 12th January, 1880.

Missing Friends
Information is requested concerning John Ghouma, a Greek, who is said to have been murdered in Queensland, but there is no record of his death at the Registrar-General's Office. It is supposed that he his known to three persons names Mapesee Con Hutdrinson, Colph Thrumbord, and Mark Panley, respectively. Information to the Officer in Charge of Detectives, Brisbane. 12th January, 1880.

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