Police Gazettes are a unique, useful and extremely fascinating resource for local, family and social historians and researchers in other fields throughout Australia. Compiled to be distributed amongst the Police Force only, these Gazettes therefore contain details and information that can not be found anywhere else.
They include court lists, lists of warrants issued, appointments and changes in the Police Service, lists of Justices of the Pease, lists of arrests and discharges (which include descriptions), escaped prisoners, and missing persons, as well as lists for liquor, wine sellers, tobacco sellers, auctioneers, billiard and poisons licences. Notices from Police Gazettes from other states are also often included.
This compendium CD contains five years of New South Wales Police Gazettes, from 1906 to 1910 at a discounted price! As well, you are able to search all five years that are included.
Example entries taken from the 25 July 1906 issue:
Manslaughter
Moulamein - Amy Furrell, charged with causing the death of her newly-born female
child, has been arrested by Constable Garling, Moulamein Police. Committed by
the District Coroner for trial at Deniliquin Session. Bail allowed.
Redfern - Edward Buckley, charged with causing the death of Robert Coates, had
been arrested by Senior-constables Allen, Moore and Hickey, and Constables
Whitehair, Webber, and Spring, Sydney Police. Committed by the City Coroner for
trial at the Central Criminal Court. Bail allowed.
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Example entry taken from the 17 April 1907 issue:
Escaped Prisoner
Berrima - Escaped from Berrima Gaol,
at 10.30 a.m. the 17th instant, Thomas Cant alias Thomas Vaughan, 28 years of
age, 5 feet 3 1/2 inches high, brown hair and eyes, close-clipped beard,
prominent mouth, scar on right foot, right thigh, right wrist, between 2nd and
3rd fingers right hand, burn scar left forearm, scar over right eye and on back
of neck, left arm has been broken. Serving a sentence of seven years' penal
servitude for arson. See Photo Book No. 42, page 212, and discharged prisoner
same name (vide Police Gazette, 1904, page 162).
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Example entry from the 15 January 1908 issue:
Promotion
[Extract from the Government Gazette] -
Chief Secretary's Department
His Excellency the Governor, with the advice of the Executive Council, has been
pleased to approve the promotion of:
Senior-sergeant Thomas Crawley, of Nowra, to the rank of Acting Sub-Inspector of
Police, to take effect from the 23rd January, vide Sub-Inspector Francis, of
Hay, to be retired.
W.H. Wood.
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Example entries from the 19 May 1909 issue:
Return of Prisoners Tried at Different Courts ...
Name: John George Seager
Offence: Manslaughter
On Whom Committed: George Salmon
Where and When Tried: Goulburn CC, 28 April 1909
Sentence: 12 months' H.L.
Name: David Saaidi Verena
Offence: Larceny
On Whom Committed: The Chief Railway Commissioner, New South Wales
Where and When Tried: Goulburn CC, 28 April 1909
Sentence: 2 years' H.L. Concurrent with sentence now being served.
Name: Charles Harding, al. Samuel Charles Hardwell, al. Samuel
Hardwell, al. Samuel Moss, al. Charles Olsen
Offence: Forgery and uttering
On Whom Committed: Richard Magee
Where and When Tried: Goulburn CC, 28 April 1909
Sentence: 3 years' H.L. To be concurrent with other sentences now being served.
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Example entries taken from the 23 November 1910 issue:
Deserters from His Majesty's Service
From H.M.S.
"Penguin" at Sydney, on the 5th November, 1910
James Albert Nicholls, able-seaman, born in England, 26 years of age, 5 feet 4
inches high, brown hair, grey eyes, fresh complexion.
From H.M.S. "Challenger" at Sydney, on the 12th November, 1910
Henry O. Roberts, stoker, born in Tasmania, 26 years of age, 5 feet 7 inches
high, light-brown hair, grey eyes, fresh complexion.
A reward of £3 will be paid for the apprehension of each of
the abovenamed deserters.
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This CD contains high quality scanned images of the whole of each years issues, and has been bookmarked for easy navigation. Pages can be searched, browsed, enlarged and printed out if required.
This is a vast resource of historical information for any social historian, local historian or genealogist researching New South Wales history and people during the 1906-1910 era.
