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Please note: Below each image held at the National Library of Australia is their catalogue batch edit which gives the false impression that all these "convict portraits" were taken because these men were transported convicts per se (i.e before cessation in 1853), and that they might have been photographed as a one-off amateur portfolio by a prison official at the Port Arthur prison in 1874, which they were not. Any reference to the Port Arthur prison official A. H. Boyd on the NLA catalogue records is an error, a PARASITIC ATTRIBUTION with no basis in fact. The men in these images were photographed in the 1870s-1880s because they were repeatedly sentenced as habitual offenders whose mugshots were taken on arrest, trial, arraignment, incarceration and/or discharge by police and prisons photographer T. J. Nevin at the Supreme Court and adjoining Hobart Gaol with his brother Constable John Nevin, and at the Municipal Police Office, Hobart Town Hall. The Nevin brothers photographed more than 3000 prisoners, the bulk now lost or destroyed. These extant mugshots are random estrays salvaged or selected on the basis of notoreity in the early 1900s from the Supreme Court trial registers, the Habitual Criminals Registers, warrant forms, and police gazettes records of the 1870s-80s. The earliest date from 1871. The police records are sourced from the weekly police gazettes which were called (until 1884) Tasmania Reports of Crime Information for Police 1871-1885. J. Barnard, Gov't Printer.


Tuesday, November 10, 2009

Paul, Samuel

SUPREME COURT CONVICTION



Samuel Paul was probably photographed twice, first on his incarceration at the Hobart Gaol as soon as Thomas J. Nevin began the systematic documentation of prisoners in 1871, and  again by  Nevin at the Hobart Gaol on the prisoner's release, 20 March 1878. The original verso has a transcription added at some time in the 1900s by archivists with the error in time and date of photographic capture.

NLA Catalogue Notes
Title: Samuel Paul, native, taken at Port Arthur, 1874 [picture].
Date: 1874.
Extent:1 photograph on carte-de-visite mount : albumen ; 9.3 x 5.6 cm. on mount 10.5 x 6.4cm.
Context:Part of Convict portraits, Port Arthur, 1874 [picture]
Title from inscription on verso.
Inscription: "65 ; Samuel Paul, native, taken at Port Arthur, 1874"--In ink on verso.
Condition: Some foxing.
Also available in an electronic version via the Internet at: http://nla.gov.au/nla.pic-vn4727969

POLICE RECORDS



Samuel Paul was sentenced to one month for gambling 1 April 1868



Samuel Paul was convicted of rape and sentenced to death 14 September 1869.



Samuel Paul was reprieved, term reduced to 15 years and photographed at the Hobart Gaol in 1871 on  arraignment. Discharged from the Hobart Gaol on 20 March 1878, sentence remitted and probaly photographed again by T.J. Nevin on release.
First published on Tuesday, November 10, 2009
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