Tasmania. Police Department - warrant to apprehend Charles Routley, 7 November 1828
Tasmania. Police Department - warrant to apprehend Charles Routley, 7 November 1828
Tasmania. Police Department - warrant to apprehend Charles Routley, 7 November 1828
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7 November 1828
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DLADD 565
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1 folder - 0.03 Meters
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This warrant is addressed to Thomas Capon, Chief Constable of Van Diemen's Land and to all other constables, authorising them to apprehend Routley on a charge of assaulting one John Hunt and stealing five Spanish Dollars from him. It is signed by Josiah Spode, Assistant Police Magistrate for Hobart.
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Tasmania. Police Department - warrant to apprehend Charles Routley, 7 November 1828
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Digital order no:a1686001
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Bequest of Sir William Dixson, 1952
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Charles Routley, a runaway convict, was active as a bushranger in the Bagdad Hills of Tasmania in the 1820s. In 1830 he was sentenced to death for sewing up one of his companions in a bullock's skin and roasting him over a fire. He later confessed to six other murders.
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DLADD 565
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1xqZxOAY
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