Media: EBOOK - download
File format: PDF, 10MB (223 pages)
Year: (1870) 2024
ISBN: 9781921515484
Publisher: Archive Digital Books Australasia

An amazing source of information, the Police Gazettes provided information and instructions to members of the police force, and as such you can expect the Tasmanian Police Gazettes (in the earliest years called 'Reports of Crime') to include the following information:

• 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
• prisoners 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 entries taken from the 21 January 1870 issue:

Inquests
An Inquest was held at Victoria, Huon, on the 12th instant, upon the bodies of William Smith, C.P., per Maitland, and James Edwards, per Augusta Jessie who were accidentally drowned in the Huon River, on the 28th ultimo. A returned accordingly.

Warrants Issued, and now in this Office
Hobart Town.-On the 17th instant, by A.B. Jones, Esq., J.P. for the arrest of Agnes Cox, charged with leaving her children at Hobart Town, without means of support.
Description: 36 years old, 5 feet 2 inches high, fresh complexion, dark hair, round features; supposed to have gone to New Norfolk.

A wonderful resource of historical information now readily available for all to use. Historians researching, social, local or family history can all benefit from using the Police Gazettes as a source of information. 

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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