Deserting Wives and Families, &c.

New Zealand Police Gazette, Volume III, Issue 3, 29 January 1879, Page 20

Deserting Wives and Families, &c.

Thomas Wallace is charged, on -warrant issued by the Hamilton Bench, with deserting his wife at Hamilton, since April, 1875. Description: Scotch, a carpenter, about thirtyfour years of age, 5 feet 8 or 9 inches high, medium build, ruddy complexion, fair hair and whiskers. He had been in tho 70th Regiment. He is supposed to be residing in the Hawke’s Bay District.

George Edward Thomas is charged with absconding from the Industrial School at Caver sham, on the 29th November last. Description : Twelve years of age, fair complexion and hair, blue eyes, smart active appearance. It is supposed he has been taken to Christchurch by a man believed to be named James, a woolsorter or fellmonger.

Henry Galland is charged, on warrant issued by the Dunedin Bench, with disobeying a summons to appear at the Police Court, Dunedin, on the 3rd instant, to answer a charge of having assaulted William George Burnett. Description: English, a carpenter, about thirty years of age, 5 feet 10 inches high, medium build, fair complexion, sandy hair, beard, whiskers, and moustache, blue eyes, smart active appearance.

James Ellen is charged, on warrant issued by the Christchurch Bench, with failing to provide his son, aged eleven years, with adequate means of support, at Eyreton, since the beginning of December last. Description: English, a labourer, thirty years of age, 5 feet 6 inches high, slight build, small features, brown hair, thin brown beard, whiskers, and moustache. It is supposed he has gone South to work on a railway line or at road-making.

(See Police Gazette, 1878, page 27.)

The warrant issued by the Oamaru Bench for the arrest of Harry Eielding, charged with wife-desertion, has been cancelled.