Media: EBOOK - download
File format: PDF, 18MB (332 pages)
Year: (1915) 2024
ISBN: 9781742224046
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

SAMPLE ENTRY (from the 2 July 1915 issue):

INQUESTS ON BODIES
Launceston.- BERYL LINDSAY MARY COLLINS, age 18 years. An inquest was held on the body of the abovenamed person on the 18th and 29th ultimo, before E. Whitfield, Esq, Coroner. Verdict: "Died from peritonitis from infection starting from the uterine, but there no evidence of interference."
Bangor.- MARY CATHERINE ESLITT, age about 62 years. An inquest was held at Lover Turner's Marsh on the body of the abovenamed person on the 28th ultimo, before D. W. Bostock, Esq., Coroner. Verdict: "Died from heart-failure".
Burnie.-MARY FARRELL, age 57 years. An inquest was held at Stowport on the body of the abovenamed person on the 26th ultimo, before J.W. Smithies, esq, Coroner. Verdict: "Accidenatlly burnt to death."

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