On Sat, 23 Jan 2010 21:51:50 +1100, Lesley Albertson <albertson@exemail.com.au> wrote: >Hi Listers, > >I wonder, could SKS with access to the NSW Police Gazette CD please >check the 1906 edition, p317, for Ernest ALBERTSON? > >He was a tram-conductor, aged 32, drowned in the waters off Bondi, 6 >September 1906. According to family tradition, it was a suicide, after a >failed love affair. (The Inquest, more prosaic, returned an Open verdict). > >Three (brief) reports of the event have now appeared in the Beta >newspapers, two saying he was picked up by the steamer Narooma, the >other saying it was the steamer Narodin. I already have the Inquest, but >would like to know exactly what is in the Police Gazette. > >Many thanks, > > >Lesley >(In Melbourne ... after listening to the Australian Open) Extract from page 317 Missing Friends. ... Missing since the 6th instant, from 118, Chalmers- street, Sydney,-Ernest Albertson, 32 years of age, 5 feet 10 inches high, stout nuggety build, brown hair and moustache only, dark complexion ; dressed in a blue serge suit and cloth cap ; has a growth under one ear; a tram-conductor. Inquiry at the instance of Thomas A. Albertson, Ultimo Tramway Depot. Enjoy the tennis. -- Robert G. Eldridge Toronto NSW Australia http://www.eldridgegenealogy.org Now researching ELDRIDGE families world wide 1000s at my Web site *Wanted* Any Eldridge related information