Criminal offence reports relating to serious offences against the person - Detective Office, South Australian Police Department (GRG5/46)

These criminal offence reports ('COR') relate to murder, attempted murder, accessory after the fact to murder, manslaughter, infanticide, concealment of birth and death as a result of an abortion. Manslaughter may include death as a result of an accident, including a traffic accident. A small number of files relate to enquiries made by South Australian police into interstate and overseas offences.

Reports give offence, where committed, date and hour, on whom (victim), victim's occupation and address, date and hour reported to Police, by whom reported, names of persons offending or reported, offender'/s' description if identifiable, direction supposedly taken by offender/s, particulars if warrant issued and steps taken to locate offender.

Reports are titled variously 'Criminal Offence Report', 1901 - c.1934; 'Report of Apprehension', c.1934- c.1937; ' Criminal Offence and Modus Operandi Report' c.1937- c.1955.

Other documents include supplementary reports, witness' statements, inquest results, newspaper reports, telegrams, memos, photographs and related correspondence. Some files include a copy of the Police/Public Prosecutor's file.

Unit 12 contains South Australian enquiries made in connection with the "Pyjama Girl Murder", which ocurred in Albury, NSW in 1934. These enquiries were made in an effort to identify the victim and contain numerous communications regarding missing female relatives and friends, and includes a number of photographs sent to the Police to assist with identification. The correspondence for 1939 contains a post mortem photograph of the victim "the eyes of which have been opened and all trace of injuries removed". This photograph is substantially different from the initial reconstructed image released to the press for public information. Also includes newspaper cuttings relating to the case, 1934-1944.

Arranged by annual single number (with large gaps, suggesting these reports have been extracted from a larger set of all criminal offence reports). Some post-1950 reports are unnumbered.

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