Recollections of a Victorian Police Officer by Sup John Sadleir
Table of Contents
Chapter | |
FOREWORD | By George Gordon McCrae |
PREFACE | |
I | From Ireland in the 'Fifties |
II | To Australia in the Great Britain |
III | Police Cadets in 1852 |
IV | Ballarat in the Early 'Fifties |
The First Criminal Court
Henry ("Tony") Foster | |
V | Ballarat in the Early 'Fifties (continued.) |
Some Fellow Passengers
The Miners and Their Troubles A "Digger Hunt" | |
VI | Ballarat in the Early 'Fifties (continued.) |
Gold and Prisoners' Escort McIvor
Gold Escort Robbed A Mystery of the Early 'Fifties | |
VII | Ballarat in the Early 'Fifties (continued.) |
Growing Discontent
How Mining Disputes were Decided More Contentious Irishmen Russell Thomson and Duncan Gillies The Eureka Stockade Public Feeling in Melbourne | |
VIII | Melbourne Police in 1854 |
A New Chief Commissioner
Licensing Courts in the 'Fifties | |
IX | Beechworth in 1856 |
Horse Stealing
Robert O'Hara Burke Drilling the Foot Police The Buckland Riots The Burke and Wills Expedition | |
X | Beechworth in 1856 (Continued) |
Indigo Diggings Discovered
McIvor Private Escort Tragedy A "Protector" of Chinese Cornelius Green, Gold-Buyer | |
XI | Beechworth in 1856 (Continued) |
Some District Personalities
Long Journeys on Horseback Beechworth, Past and Present Billy, the Puntman | |
XII | The Western District of Victoria |
Captain Whittaker and the Bushranger
Snipe Shooting Tracking by the Blacks The First Coaches in the District "Lambing Down" The Wannon Falls A Plucky Constable Cuthbert Featherstonhaugh, Jr. A Yellow Peril The Duffy Land Act | |
XIII | Melbourne in 1864 |
Unrest and Insubordination
Superintendent T. H. Lyttelton The City Police, 1864 to 1867 The Theatre Royal Cafe The Wrecked Passengers of the "Netherby" The Horse and Jockey Inn An Awkward Situation A Charge Refused A Military Scare All-Night Licenses to Publicans Dr. J.G. Beaney in the Dock | |
XIV | Some Legal Luminaries |
B. C. Aspinall as a Humorist
A Q.C.'s Longest Day | |
XV | Gippsland in 1867 |
Captain Edgar Slade, R.N.
"Viking's" Last Race Snipe, Quail and Duck Grant in the Later 'Sixties The Dargo High Plains The Walhalla Mine The Long Tunnel Mine Mr. John Arabin A Land of Floods | |
XVI | The Bushranger, Power |
Mr. Robert McBean Robbed | |
XVII | Four Uneventful Years |
The Road to Woods' Point
Some Curious Accidents Bishop Moorhouse as a Pedestrian A Country Surgeon The Jericho Diggings Mr. J. H. Graves as Parliamentary Candidate "Black Wednesday" | |
XVIII | The Kelly Gang |
Police Murders in the Wombat Forest
Constable Thomas McIntyre Sergeant Kennedy Isaiah ("Wild") Wright After the Wombat Murders | |
XIX | The Kelly Gang (Continued) |
"A Lost Opportunity"
A Night Watch on the Ovens The Euroa Bank Stuck Up "Assistant Postmaster" Flood Again Superintendent Francis Hare The Jerilderie (N.S.W.) Bank Robbed | |
XX | The Kelly Gang (Continued) |
The Queensland Black Trackers
How the Black Trackers Worked C. H. Nicolson Again Takes Charge The "Diseased Stock" Agent Some Arm-chair Advisers A Disturbing Element Shortly After Glenrowan The Police Train Leaves Benalla | |
XXI | The Kelly Gang (Continued) |
The Kelly Gang at Glenrowan
Ned Kelly's Armour Alleged Reckless Shooting by Police Ned Kelly Captured The Kelly Prisoners Leave the Hotel How Joe Byrne Met His Fate The Hotel Fired Peace Reigns in the North-Eastern District The Longmore Police Commission An Editor Interviewed | |
XXII | In Charge of the Metropolitan District |
Disorganisation of the Police
The Police Negligent, Not Corrupt Increase of Junior Officers A New Development | |
XXIII | The Detective Force |
Detective John Williams
Two Brave Bank Officers | |
XXIV | Rioting in Melbourne |
Assault on Orangemen at Brunsick
The Maritime Strike Nearly a Tragedy The People's Forum | |
XXV | Chief Commissioners of Police, 1853 - 1902 |
XXVI | Some Sergeants and Constables |
XXVII | Men Who Have Helped |
APPENDIX. | The Corps of Native Troopers List of Police Cadets and Officers |
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