Claudius Albert, watchmaker & jeweller, Gulgong
Source: SLNSW
Source: Information supplied by Baldwin & Davis, Research Gulgong (Sept 2006)
NEWS ITEMS
1872 - APPREHENSIONS
William Rutland, charged with larceny as a bailee of a gold watch (recovered), the property of Claudius Albert, Gulgong, has been arrested by Senior-sergeant Baikie and Detective Lyons. Remanded to Gulgong.
Source: New South Wales Police Gazette and Weekly Record of Crime (Sydney : 1860 - 1930) Wed 31 Jan 1872 [Issue No.5] Page 30
1872 - A Horse in a Jeweller's Shop
On Friday morning about 10 o'clock, the driver of a cart belonging to Mr Young of Queen street, Gulgong was delivering his goods; he had to call and make a delivery at Sun Tong Lee and Co's and backed the cart to the side door. In a few minutes afterwards (says the Gulgong Guardian) the horse, from some cause, darted out across the road. The young man sprang onto his head, and held powerfully, but being unable to hold the animal, it dashed furiously, head and shoulders, into the show window of Mr. C. Albert, watchmaker and jeweller, smashing the front completely in, also a large show-case of quarter-inch plate-glass, and full of valuable jewellery. When we visited the place it was in a very damaged state, and the loss cannot as yet be estimated. By eye-witnesses it is stated that the greatest efforts were used by the driver to prevent the occurrence, even at the risk of his own life. From the appearance of the flow of blood on the ground, the horse must have been seriously cut by the thick broken glass. Mrs Albert was at the time standing in the shop close to the window, and was struck on the wrist by the shaft of the cart, and on the face by the horse's head, cutting her lip.
1873 - POLICE COURT
Wholesale Theft – James William Gibbs a youth of 15 years charged with stealing a number of articles [one silver watch and massive gold chain, two lockets, one gold mounted hair guard, one gold dollar, three gold studs, pair of boots, two elastic belts and two pairs of wrist bracelets] from George James Plunkett during his absence. He then proceeded to Mr. Guigni’s in Queen Street to get a glass put in the watch, not having any money he disposed of two lockets which the Jeweller upon oath valued at £1 for 5/- and 2/6 for the glass. He next disposed of the gold mounted hair guard to Mr. Albert of Herbert Street. He then proceeded to he shop of William Hammond, a watchmaker and there tried to dispose of the watch and chain. He was not a licensed pawnbroker. The prisoner being under age was given 14 days Mudgee gaol and five years in the Reformatory. The Bench instructed the police to proceed against the Mudgee Jeweller under the Pawnbroker’s Act.
Source: Gulgong Guardian, Issue No 158, 19 February 1873
Detail: Claudius Albert, watchmaker & jeweller, Gulgong
Source: SLNSW
