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Media: EBOOK - download
File format: PDF, 14MB (257 pages)
Year: (1909) 2024
ISBN: 9781742223988
Publisher: Archive Digital Books Australasia

Police gazettes provided information and instructions to members of the police force. You can expect the Tasmanian Police Gazettes (in the earliest
years called "Reports of Crime") 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
convict returns
disciplining of police
escapees and absconders from custody
housebreakers and burglars
licensed carriers, hawkers, oyster fishers, and tanners
deserting wives, families, etc
deserting from military service
deserting from merchant vessels
inquests
missing friends
murderers and their victims
police resignations
prisoners discharged from gaols and released on tickets of leave
property and stock recovered
rewards - names of persons offering a reward
victims of arson
victims of horse and cattle stealing or straying
victims of lost or stolen property
victims of sheep stealing or straying

Example entry taken from the 2 July 1909 issue:

BURGLARY.
MERSEY DISTRICT. - About 1 a.m. on the 26th ultimo, a room, which is used as the Sprent Post Office, in the dwelling of Miss Ella Elliott, Sprent, was burglariously entered, entrance being affected by breaking the window, and the following property stolen therefrom: - A type-box, containing the office type and about £1 11s.; and the key of the office safe. The type-box, type, and key are the property of the Commonwealth Government, and are identifiable by Miss Elliott; the money is the property of the latter.

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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