VPRS 4965 Consignment P0 Unit 2 Item 7 Record 1 Document: From Acting Chief of Police Nicolson re: Kelly enquiry, assumed names to be given to Agents
12/04/1881
Overview
These memorandums, from ACP Chomley and dated the 12.04.188, were sent to various towns within the North Eastern District with instructions that the identities of all the secret agents working for the police were to be kept confidential. Code names were given to all those agents and police officers were asked to refer to them only by these names. In the period the Kelly’s went into hiding, the police employed secret agents and search parties to track down the outlaws. By late 1879 & early 1880, disputes over Secret Service monies started to arise. ACP Nicolson argued that search parties were ineffective and costly: he believed that the agents, the majority of whom belonged to the same social class as the outlaws, were a far more effective way of procuring information.
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Sr Cons Scanlan
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[Kelly enquiry 15.4.81 Assumed names to be given to Agents]Police Department, CHIEF COMMISSIONERS OFFICE, Melbourne, 12 April 1881Memo, With a view to protect the interest of those persons who were paid by this Depart for secret services in connection with the search for the Kelly gang, it is most desirable that when they be hereafter mentioned, or referred to in any way, names be used differing from those which they have hitherto borne. Assist Commissr Nicolson, and Supts Hare and Sadleir desire that, in hereafter alluding to the undermentioned Police Agents, all persons connected with the Force give him the name indicated below. They regard the matter as one of much importance and I beg that Senior Cons A Scanlan will be careful to comply with their wish.A M Chomley Acting Chf Commr Police
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Read and returned to Chief Commissioners office (N10P/81) (other initials unreadable) [End of page 1 reverse] |
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Sergt Steele |
Police Department, Memo, A M Chomley
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| V 278/81 Noted by Sergt Steele & returned to Chief Commissioners office A. M. Steele Sgt 1179 [End of page 2 reverse] |
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Police Department, CHIEF COMMISSIONERS OFFICE, Melbourne, 12 April 1881Memo, With a view to protect the interest of those persons who were paid by this Department for secret services in connection with the search for the Kelly gang, it is most desirable that when they be hereafter mentioned, or referred to in any way, names be used differing from those which they have hitherto borne. Assist Commr Nicolson, and Superints Hare and Sadleir, desire that in hereafter alluding to the undermentioned police agents, all persons connected with the Force give him the name indicated below. They regard the matter as one of much importance, and I beg that Sergeant Whelan will be careful to comply with their wish.A M Chomley Acting Chf Commr Police
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Noted and returned to the acting Chief Commissioner. whose instructions will be carefully attended to J. Whelan Sergt. 1305 [End of page 3 reverse] |
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Senr. Const. James |
Police Department, Memo, A M Chomley
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| Noted and returned to the Acting Chief Commr. Of Police Frank James S C 2334. MansfieldActing C. C. Police . 15/4/81 Melbourne [End of page 4 reverse] |
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