Media: EBOOK - download
File format: PDF, 13MB (270 pages)
Year: (1911) 2024
ISBN: 9781742224008
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 7 April 1911 issue:

PROPERTY STOLEN
HOBART.-J. FISHER, manager for S.S. "Togo" Reported stolen from the purser's office on board the S.S. "Toga" lying at Argyle-street Pier on 1st instant or 2nd ultimo: -A black tin cash-box, containing about £3 19s. in cash, consisting of gold, silver, and copper;
aggregate value £4 4s.; cash-box only identifiable.

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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