• Title
  Tasmania. Police Department - warrant to apprehend Charles Routley, 7 November 1828
• Creator
  Tasmania. Police Department
• Call number
  DLADD 565
  
• Level of description
  fonds
• Date
  
  7 November 1828
• Type of material
  Textual Records
• Reference code
  411381
• Issue Copy
  Digitised
• Physical Description
  0.03 metres of textual material (1 folder)
  
• ADMINISTRATIVE/ BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY
  
  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.
• Scope and Content
  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.
• General note
  
  Digital order no:a1686001
• Creator/Author/Artist
  Spode, Josiah, 1790-1858
  
• Name
  Capon, Thomas
  Hunt, John
  
• Subject
  Convicts--Tasmania.
  Warrants (Law)--Tasmania.
  Dixson Library (N.S.W.)
  
• Exhibited in
  
  On the Run. Daring Convict Escapes - State Library of New South Wales (6 November, 2006 - 9 February, 2007)
• Open Rosetta viewer
  IE3155734

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