Police gazettes provided information and instructions to members of the police force. You can expect the Tasmanian Police Gazettes (in the earliest years called 'Reports of Crime') to include the following information that will usually list names and sometimes personal details, descriptions with photograph, addresses and/or occupations may be an added bonus for the researcher:
Example entry taken from 9 July 1926 issue:
INQUESTS ON BODIES.
HOBART.- HANNAH SMITH MOLLROSS. An inquest was opened on the body of the abovenamed person, at Hobart, on the 26th day of June, 1926, and adjourned to and concluded on the 3rd instant, before E. W. Turner, Esq., Coroner. Verdict: "Upon enquiry I find that the deceased, Hannah Smith Mollross, aged 41 years, died at the Homoeopathic Hospital, at Hobart, on the 23rd day of June, 1926, and that the death resulted from septicaemia, following a miscarriage, but there is no evidence to show how, or in what manner, the said miscarriage was brought about."
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Publisher | Archive Digital Books Australia |
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Author | No |
Date | (1926) 2009 |
Pages | 281 |
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