Media: EBOOK - download
File format: PDF file 66MB (670 pages)
Year: (1929) 2024
ISBN: 9781921461767
Publisher: Archive Digital Books Australasia

If you had family living in South Australia in the 1920s, have you thought of looking at the Police Gazettes for information? These are an historian's goldmine of information. Compiled to be distributed amongst the Police Force only, these Gazettes contain details and information that can not be found anywhere else.

Far from just listing those who were in the Police Force, or those that were on the 'wrong side' of the law - you will also find entries of missing persons, or they might be a witness to crime, or they may have had something stolen from them, or they may even have found an item, and reported it to the Police.

Issued once a week, you will find information on housebreak-ins, robberies, arson, murders, stolen cars and motorbikes, deserters from families and also deserters from service, inquest verdicts, escaped prisoners and reports on those released ... as well as some information from interstate police gazettes ... and so much more. This contains all issues that were released during 1929.

SAMPLE ENTRY (from the 27 March 1929 issue):

Special Inquiry
ADELAIDE-Special inquiry is requested with a view to locating and arresting ROY HENRY PERRY and CLAUDE PEARSON, who are suspected of receiving stolen goods in the cases of shopbreaking and larceny on Thomas Keith Shutter, vide Police Gazette, 1929, page 88, and Harold Jack Weeks, vide Police Gazette, 1929, page 107. Perry is a barman, 28 to 30 years of age, 5ft. 7in. or 5ft. 8in. high, stout build, fair complexion, fair hair (parted in centre), piercing eyes; Pearson is a jockey, 30 years of age, 5ft. 5in. high, slight build, square shoulders, dark-brown hair; they left West's training stables, Glenelg, at 5 a.m. on the 25th instant, in a Buick motor car, registered No. 97321, five-seater, painted cream, when they are said to have had a quantity of the stolen property in their possession, consisting of suiting materials, cigarettes, &c.; they also have a number of cards bearing the name of W.J. Balfour, tailor, Pirie Street, Adelaide, in their possession. Two men have been arrested in connection with the above offences, and the arrest of Perry and Pearson is urgently desired.-(C.2481)

This years worth of issues has some features which include:

• marine stores collectors' and dealers' licences
• list of medical officers appointed to attend destitute persons' in country districts
• and even a few photographs of those wanted

This makes valuable South Australian historical information easily available for all to use.

High quality scanned images of the whole of the original book, bookmarked for easy navigation. Pages can be searched, browsed, enlarged and printed out if required.

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