Stolen.

Canterbury Police Gazette, Volume XII, Issue 8, 15 April 1874, Page 54

Stolen.

Stolen, from,:Swannanoa, about the 3rd instant, a silk necktie,; a linen collar, Shakspeare shape, and'an oval-shaped gold pin, set with a piece of gold quartz, the property of S. B. Percy. 'Thomas King, who left the station three days before 1 the “articles were missed, is suspected he r is : known to k Mr. % Morton, Sumner, and Mr. }Parker, 1 servants registry office. ‘

Stolen, from the dwelling of Thomas William .Jones, r end of Springfield Road,-St. Albans, between 11 a.m. and 1 p.m. on the 12th _ instant, 1 seventeen - shillings -in silver. It would appear to be the work of a boy, as some gold rings and other jewellery in the room was untouched. WArmTT. ; '.

Five Stacks of wheat,"value‘£2oo,* the property of Thomas Connolly, Waihi Crossing, were' I .burned "during s the s night of the v 4th instant. ; The origin of the fire is unknown, and Mr. \Connolly does not suspect any one.

Mary Campbell, a servant at the Hon. E. Richardson’s, Wellington, reported that she left Wellington for Lyttelton per s.s. . Phoebe, at 5 p.m. on the 4th inst., having, amongst other articles with her in the ladies’ cabin/a brown. leather purse,.. about .2|-x ~3 • inches,fastening with a brass snap spring, and containing eight sovereigns, together with a small 1 gold foreign coin, and a slip of paper with the address “ John Shaw, at Hon. E. Richardson, Wellington.” '' Coin identifiable by John Shaw. A Upon' entering the ladies’ cabin,'':Hhe stewardess .'asked' to see,, Miss Campbell’s' ticket, r which ’ she at ' once produced out of her purse. After. k replacing] the ' ticket in . her purse, she put s the 'purse' into a leather travelling bag ' upon the'table ;' in about a quarter of an .hour she went.to the bag and found the purse - gone, but the passage ticket was left in a small pocket on’ the outside -the' bag. ’ Miss Campbell' suspects the stewardess of having' taken' her purse. **.\\ ' ,v. ■ ■ ■ -v-d

A man, described as being about 30 years of age, sft.; .7. or Bin, . rather thin . build,, dark complexion, dark hair and whiskers, believed to have the front part of his chin .shaved, wearing a black round hat turned up at the sides, black cloth coat and coloured trousers, is charged.with indecently assaulting' Lizzie Moore, a girl' ten years of age, at the Cricket G-round, about 4 p.m. on the 3rd inst. . ,:

Patrick O’Loughan is charged' on warrant .filed in v Commissioner’s:' office, ’ with obtaining a whip, value 10s., from :. Mr: Edward Henry Brewer, of Temuka, by false pretences. Descriptionlrish, • about 40 years, sft.■ 10 or llin., stout build, dark hair' beard, whiskers ' and 1 moustache, red ' Roman' nose, red face, . pock-marked, dressed /in'- a brown'- knitted •• jacket, - moleskin trousers, black billycock /hat; a ploughman v and roadman. Supposed to have gone to Ashburton.