Media: EBOOK - download
File format: PDF file 22MB (443 pages)
Year: (1887) 2023
ISBN: 9781921230936
Publisher: Archive Digital Books Australasia

The Queensland Police Gazette were produced as a means of advising others in the police force of the happenings - those wanted, property stolen, items found, persons arrested and so much more.

Issued weekly during 1887, 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 22 October 1887 issue):

Felonies and Offences Not Otherwise Described
Brisbane - On the night of the 13th instant St. Mary's School, Kangaroo Point, was entered through a window which was left unfastened and the following articles, the property of Miss Bonus, teacher, were maliciously destroyed:- 1 large map of Queensland, 1 large map and 1 small map of Europe, a bottle of red ink was also spilled on the floor. The damage is estimated at £4. 17th October, 1887.

Missing Friend
Information is requested concerning the present whereabouts of James Temple, who was last heard of from Morven. He was employed as a boundary-rider on a station at the Warrego River. Inquires instituted at the instance of his father, John Temple, 103 Dunbiedykes road, Edinburgh, Scotland. Information to the Officer in Charge of Detectives, Brisbane. 17th October, 1887.

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