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During 1914 the Queensland Police Gazette was issued once a week, and it was
stated that it "contains information received in cases of felony and of
misdemeanour, and against receivers of stolen property, reputed thieves, and
offenders escaped from custody, with the time, place, and circumstances of the
offences, and description of offenders or those suspected, giving the
appearance, dress, and other marks of identity, with every particular which may
lead to their apprehension; and a description, as accurate as possible, of
property that has been stolen, horses, &c."
This truly is an historian's goldmine of information which cannot be found
elsewhere. Apart from any changes within the police force which are all listed,
information is also given on housebreak-ins, robberies, arson, murders, lost
horses and cattle, deserters, escaped prisoners, warrants issued, reports on
those released. Notices from interstate police gazettes are sometimes included.
A unique feature of this particular year's worth of issues is that they
contain of those who have licences for auctionering, hawkers, distilling,
billiards, retail spirit dealing, clubs, and the transfer of publican licences.
Many photographs of those missing, wanted or released are also included.
Example entry taken from the 25 July 1914 issue:
Description of Portraits, with Previous 'Gazette' References
[photographs shown]
No. 737. - James Roberts, alias Boyd, alias David Rea, alias Edward Johnston,
who escaped from a train through the lavatory window of a railway carriage,
about 5.30 p.m. on the 20th instant, between Isis Junction and Howard, while
being conveyed therein under Police escort to Bundaberg, for trial at the
District Court there on the 23rd idem, charged with breaking, entering, and
stealing. Description:- 61 years of age, 5 feet 11 inches high, about 12 stone
weight, medium build, fair complexion, clean shaven, bald top of head, scanty
brown hair, no teeth, scar left eyebrow and on forehead and back of head,
sometimes wears spectacles; dressed in light-grey tweed clothes and
light-grey felt hat; a jeweller or carpenter; native of Ireland. Supposed
since seen in the vicinity of Landsborough, and to have been wearing a black
hard hat. - 38.51. 22nd July, 1914.
High quality scanned images of the whole years worth of issues. This
CD has been bookmarked for easy navigation, and pages can be searched, browsed,
enlarged and printed out if required.
Click here to download a file of sample pages from this book Right click on the link and select "save as" - to a location on your hard drive. The sampler can be opened, navigated and searched as with the full CD file/s. Sample files usually contain the title page, contents, some introductory pages and sample pages from the body of the book. Often the complete index from the original book is included.
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