Western Australia Police Gazette 1876
Contains March to Dec 1876 please note the Gazettes started in March 1876
The Police Gazette of Western Australia (1876 onwards) is a valuable resource for researching police and criminals in Western Australia. Information can be found under various headings:
apprehensions (name of person arrested, arresting constable, charge and sentence);
police appointments, dismissals, discharges, promotions, resignations and transfers;
tickets of leave, certificates of freedom, and conditional pardons issued to convicts;
physical descriptions of prisoners (name, condition, build, age, height, hair and eye colour, visage, complexion, trade, nationality and distinguishing marks);
deserters from military service;
escaped prisoners;
expirees leaving the colony;
inquests (where held, date, before whom, name and date of death of person, verdict);
licences (publican, gallon, eating, boarding and lodging houses, railway refreshment rooms, wine and beer, colonial wine, spirit merchants, club, wayside house, packet and billiard table - name of licensee, name of hotel etc and town or district given);
missing friends;
prisoners discharged;
people tried at Quarter Sessions (name, offence, district, verdict, how disposed of);
special inquiries;
stealing in dwellings;
and warrants issued.
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