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If you had family living in South Australia in the 1870s, have you thought of
looking at the Police Gazettes for information? These are an historian's goldmine
of information. Compiled to be distributed amongst the Police Force only, these
Gazettes contain details and information that can not be found anywhere else.
Far from just listing those who were in the Police Force, or those that were on
the 'wrong side' of the law - you will also find entries of missing persons, or
they might be a witness to crime, or they may have had something stolen from
them, or they may even have found an item, and reported it to the Police.
Issued once a week, you will find information on housebreak-ins,
robberies, arson, murders, lost horses and cattle, deserters from families and
also deserters from service, inquest verdicts, escaped prisoners
and reports on those released ... as well as some information from interstate
police gazettes ... and so much more. This CD-ROM contains all issues that were released during 1875
and 1876.
Example entries taken from the 5 January 1876 issue:
Description of Prisoners to be Discharged from H.M. Gaols
During the week ending January 12, 1876.
Elizabeth Strauss, born in South Australia, of German parents, age 22, 5ft. 5in.
high, dark hair and eyes, a domestic servant; sentenced to three months' hard
labor for larceny from the dwelling-house of William R. Evans, at Adelaide.
Sarah Reid, native of South Australia, domestic servant, age 17 years, 5ft.
high, brown hair, black eyes, cast in both eyes, sentenced to two months' hard
labor for false pretences upon John Kingsborough, Martina Balthaser, and Edward
John Pittard, at Adelaide and Norwood.
Anne Werry, Scotch, age 34 years, 5ft. 3 1/2in., fair hair, blue eyes; sentenced
to one month's hard labor for larceny from Joseph W. Martin, on LeFevre's
Peninsula.
This CD makes valuable South Australian historical information easily
available for all to use.
This CD contains high quality scanned images of the whole of each year's issues.
It has been bookmarked for easy navigation. and pages can be searched, browsed,
enlarged and printed out if required.
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System Requirements
- Any computer using Adobe (Acrobat) Reader 4 or later
- Adobe Reader 6 or later is recommended for CDs with searchable text
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