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Media: EBOOK - download
File format: PDF, 16MB (283 pages)
Year: (1927) 2024
ISBN: 9781742224541
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 January 21, 1927:
ARSON.
FITZGERALD.- GEORGE A. HILL reports that at about 5 a.m. on the 18th
ultimo his four-roomed weatherboard cottage, situated at Fitzgerald, and
valued at £200, was, with the contents (furniture and effects, valued at £150,
and owned by Leslie W. Donohue, the occupier), totally destroyed by fire.
The cottage was uninsured, but the furniture and effects were insured in the
Royal Insurance Company for £150. Incendiarism suspected.

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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