Media: EBOOK - download
File format: PDF file 23MB (382 pages)
Year: (1895) 2023
ISBN: 9781921230899
Publisher: Archive Digital Books Australasia

During 1895 the Queensland Police Gazette was issued once a week, and each issue really is an historian's goldmine of information, much of which cannot be found anywhere else. 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 licences for thing live auctioneering, victuallers, tobacconists, and more. Notices from interstate police gazettes are sometimes included.

SAMPLE ENTRIES (from the 6 April 1895 issue):

Felonies and Offences not Otherwise Described
Croydon - At 4 p.m. on the 25th February last an explosion took place in the firebox of a steam engine at James' Block, True Blue Hill, Croydon, the property of Alfred James and others, doing damage to the amount of £100. The explosion is supposed to have been caused by a dynamite cartridge or cartridges introduced into the firewood used in the engine, and suspicion attaches to a man named James Gavan, a recent employee of the True Blue Company, who used some threatening language respecting them at the time of his discharge. The firewood was probably intended for the engine of the Company and not for complainant's.-O.512 1st April, 1895.

Missing Friends
Information is requested, at the insistence of E. Rose. Victoria Street, Goodwood, Victoria, as to the present whereabouts of her sister, who was last heard of at Auckland, New Zealand, about sixteen years ago. Her maiden name was Mary Ann Dickinson, but she is said to have married a man named Madden or Maddern, and to have come to Queensland with her husband, who was desirous of joining the Police Force here, about 1881. Description: - 35 years of age, tall, fair complexion, blue eyes. Her father now 76 years of age, and wealthy is returning from Chili to Victoria, and is desirous of having his children near him during the remainder of his days. Information to the Officer in Charge of Detectives, Brisbane.-O.503. 1st April, 1895.

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