Pierce Boardman, 1828-79 (from self portrait). Roads Board member 1865 - 66; Auditor 1869 -74.Pierce Boardman, 1828-79 (from self portrait). boardman, pierce

Folder of information on Thomas Boardman, Kangaroo Ground, 1880sthomas boardman

222p. ; black cover with original dust jacket cut and pasted onto front, with sketch of man and woman hiding in bushesfictionBishop, caught between his curiosity and the murderous riddle that aroused it, survives heart failure to find the answer, following the chain of strange events that lead from death to death. fiction, mystery, simon rattray, a hugo bishop story

189p. ; orange cever with front of origianl dust jacket pasted onto front cover, featuring man holding a gun and a hookfictionMason Trask, a successful novalist, had always avoided violence. It took murder to make him seek it out. A crazed policeman had gone down into the Times Square subway station and shot and killed four men engrossed in an early morning crap game. The policeman, who did not live long after he reached the street, was Mason Trask's brother.fiction, crime, mystery, hugh pentecost

256p. ; blue cover with original dust jacket cut and pasted onto front cover, featuring woman and man standing outside Pawnbroker shop frontfictionThe affair of the painted skull started on March 24th. On that day Martin Adams, a lawyer-investigator by profession but with the sentimental heart of a perennial college man, passed the loan shop where the skull was on display, noticed the letters of his own fraternity on the trophy, and bought it for ten dollars. At once things began to happen. Martin was held up, and then slugged.The skull, after revealing the fingerprints of a gangster supposedly dead for years, disappeared. A twenty-thousand-dollar necklace was found in the purse of Adams' pretty secretary. And as if things weren't looking black enough for Martin, the skull turned up again - in the drawer of a murdered man's desk! fiction, crime, mystery, carl shannon

187p. ; crimson cover with original dust jacket cut and pasted onto front cover; author and title embossed in black on spinefictionIt seemed to be the most hopeless case that Detective-Inspector James Dale had been called upon to investigate. The body had been in the river so long that identification was impossible. The only concrete clues were a sack and some clothes-line - both of a common and widely used make. Yet it was from this scant evidence that the case was eventually solved, but not before many hours of tiring, exhausting investigation had unearthed dead ends, immaterial and misleading facts and finally the murderer.fiction, crime, mystery, john c. cooper

Colony of Victoria mining reports show any Ringwood mine references under Castlemaine District, St. Andrews Subdivision. Noteworthy for Ringwood: - Death of Pierce Boardman, mining manager at New Ringwood Mining Co., accidentally killed when he lost his footing and fell to a depth of 40 feet on 1st January 1879. - William White injured in truck accident at New Ringwood Antimony Tribute Company, 31st March 1882.Boxed collection of soft and hard bound reports including: 1. Quarterly Colony of Victoria reports of the Mining Surveyors & Registrars, Victoria, 1865-1881 - Summary of gold mining statistics for the quarter - Tables showing the yield of gold from certain parcels of quartz raised during the quarter in some of the deepest mines in Victoria with depth of the deepest shafts, levels, cross-cuts, etc. - Estimated yield of gold and quantity of gold exported during the quarter - Gold received and issued from the Royal Mint during the quarter - Summary of yield of gold from quartz, tailings, etc., crushed during the quarter - Summary of yield of gold from washdirt and cement washed and crushed during quarter - Number and distribution of miners on the goldfields of the colony. 2. 1879-82 Hard bound volume - Chief Inspector of Mines Reports to the Honorable Minister of Mines, Victoria. (Includes fatal and non-fatal accident reports, mining operations, and employment statistcs.) Noteworthy for Ringwood: - Death of Pierce Boardman, mining manager at New Ringwood Mining Co., accidentally killed when he lost his footing and fell to a depth of 40 feet on 1st January 1879. - William White injured in truck accident at New Ringwood Antimony Tribute Company, 31st March 1882. 3. Mineral Statistics for Victoria - annual reports for years 1867, 1871, 1874, 1876, 1877, 1878, & 1879. 4. Handwritten study notes.antimony, boardman, william white