Prisoner Luke MARSHALL 1874

SUPREME COURT CONVICTION 1874
T. J. NEVIN photographs of prisoners at Hobart Gaol 1874



National Library of Australia
nla.pic-vn4270055 PIC P1029/32 (incorrect information)
LOC Album 935 Luke Marshall, per John Renwick, taken at Port Arthur, 1874 [picture] 1874. 
1 photograph on carte-de-visite mount : albumen ; 9.4 x 5.6 cm. on mount 10.5 x 6.3 cm.
Part of Convict portraits, Port Arthur, 1874 [picture]

POLICE RECORDS



Luke Marshall, a collier, was convicted of larceny at George Town, Tasmania, on 30 August 1873 and sentenced to one month.



Luke Marshall was discharged 1st October 1873



Luke Marshall, 45 years old, was arraigned at the Supreme Court Launceston on 8th January 1874 and sentenced to eight years for cattle-stealing. He was transferred to the Hobart Gaol and photographed by Thomas J. Nevin on 12th January 1874.

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Australia's FIRST MUGSHOTS

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 solely 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 government contractor, 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 when appearing at The Mayor's Court. The Nevin brothers produced over a thousand originals and duplicates of Tasmanian prisoners, the bulk now lost or destroyed. The three hundred extant mugshots were the random estrays salvaged - and reproduced in many instances- for sale at Beattie's local convictaria museum in Hobart and at interstate exhibitions associated with the fake convict ship Success in the early 1900s. The mugshots were selected on the basis of the prisoner's notoriety from the Supreme Court trial registers (Rough Calendar), the Habitual Criminals Registers (Gaol Photo Books), warrant forms, and police gazettes records of the 1870s-1880s. The earliest taken on government contract by T. J. Nevin date from 1872. The police records sourced here are from the weekly police gazettes which were called (until 1884) Tasmania Reports of Crime Information for Police 1871-1885. J. Barnard, Gov't Printer.