Monday, January 19, 2009

Prisoner James THOMAS



NLA Catalogue (incorrect information)
Title James Thomas, per Wm. [William] Jardine 2, taken at Port Arthur, 1874 [picture]
Date1874.
Extent1 photograph on carte-de-visite mount : albumen ; 9.4 x 5.6 cm., on mount 10.4 x 6.4 cm.

POLICE RECORDS



James Thomas was convicted in the Launceston Supreme Court for 6yrs, transferred to the Hobart Gaol and photographed on discharge by Nevin on 28 June 1876. He was admitted as a pauper to the Brickfields Depot and went AWOL in January 1877.






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