Is there any way I can obtain the age of a prisoner in Adelaide in 1935 please. This would enable me to ascertain whether the man I seek bearing the correct name is the one I seek
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13-03-2012, 3:33 PM #1EttieGuest
Access to Prisoners Ages in Adelaide S.A. 19
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13-03-2012, 9:07 PM #2Hugh ThompsonGuest
Hi Ettie, also you could check the newspapers for his arrest and court case as they usually have their ages mentioned.
Hugh.
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13-03-2012, 10:34 PM #3judygGuest
Hi Ettie,
I have all the South Australian Police Gazettes from 1862 - 1947. If you can supply his name I will see what I can find.
Cheers
Judyg
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15-03-2012, 3:15 PM #4EttieGuest
Harold Victor Sparks born 1893 Bristol England. Newspaper report The Advertiser delaide 6 December 1935 to be imprisoned for 5 months no age given.
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15-03-2012, 3:49 PM #5CoromandelGuest
Hello Ettie
The Adelaide Advertiser of 8 August 1935 says that Harold Victor Sparkes (manufacturing chemist, of Sydenham Road, Norwood) was 42 years old. This perhaps is his own description of himself: some of the other newspaper reports of 1935 call him a 'salesman, of no fixed abode'. Not quite the same!
In 1941 a 47 year old Harold Victor Sparkes pleaded guilty to stealing a tweed overcoat belonging to James Bates of Emerald; this is reported in the the Morning Bulletin (published in Rockhampton, Queensland) of 2 September 1941.
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15-03-2012, 4:04 PM #6CoromandelGuest
This looks like him again! The Sydney Morning Herald of 22 February 1930 reports that Harold Victor Sparkes, 36, salesman, who had been charged with 'having fraudulently embezzled £1/7/6 from the Burgin Electric Company Limited, by whom he was employed', was acquitted.
and again in the Melbourne Argus, 6 February 1935 . . . this time acquitted of stealing a ring. Here he is described as a 39 year old inventor, 'formerly of Irwell Street St Kilda and recently of Sydney (NSW)'. He conducted his own defence.
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15-03-2012, 4:11 PM #7CoromandelGuest
An index to the South Australian Police Gazette, 1936, has this entry:
Sparkes, Harold Victor, alias Arthur Grayson, alias T. Bryon, alias Robert Waring, discharged, 130; suspected of larceny on Dorothea Louise Howard, 291.
The above is taken from p.62 of this PDF file:
https://www.
unlockthepast.com.au/sites/default/files/samples/AU5103-1936s.pdf
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15-03-2012, 10:17 PM #8judygGuest
Hi Ettie,
If you can give me a few hours I will PM you with a lot of details on him including his mug shots. I have to go out for most of the day but will get on to it asap
Cheers
Judyg
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