Monday, January 19, 2009

Prisoner Denis DOGHERTY



NLA Catalogue (incorrect information)
Title Dennis Dogherty, per Aurora, taken at Port Arthur, 1874 [picture].
Extent 1 photograph on carte-de-visite mount : albumen ; 9.4 x 5.6 cm. on mount 10.5 x 6.3 cm.

POLICE RECORDS police gazette notices



Dogherty, Fisher and O'Brien absconded, police gazette notice of 2 November 1871.



Dogherty, Fisher and O'Brien were arrested 3 November 1871. They were transferred to the Hobart Gaol in July 1873, and photographed by T. J. Nevin on incarceration.



Source: Tasmania Reports of Crime for Police, weekly gazette

Dogherty - his name now spelt as Denis Dougharty - was discharged with a TOL on 30th January 1876, recorded in the police gazette on 26 February 1876. Thomas Nevin took this photograph of Dogherty on discharge at the Mayor's Court Police Office Hobart Town Hall.

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On board the "City of Hobart" 31st January 1872