Deserters from Merchant Vessels.

New Zealand Police Gazette, Volume III, Issue 15, 16 July 1879, Page 124

Deserters from Merchant Vessels.

Eranz Schtjlding is charged with deserting from the barque “Charles Forbes,” at Campbelltown, about the 20th ultimo. Description : A Swede, twenty-one years of age, 5 feet 6 inches high, medium build, dark complexion and hair, small dark whiskers and moustache. It is supposed he has gone to Port Chalmers overland, or in the schooner “Jessie Nichol.”

(See Police Gazette, 1879, page 63.)

The warrants issued for the arrest of William Paris, Ezekiel Speary, Mals Lecta, Andrew Sandstrom, George Nicholas, and John McPherson, charged with deserting from the barquo “Hudson,” at Wellington, have been cancelled.

John Smyth, Albert Stoatman, and Reinhairt Hickman are charged with deserting, on the 2nd instant, from the ship “ Glen Caladh,” at Auckland. Description : Symth is a Russian, twenty-four years of age, 5 feet 10 inches high, stout build, fair hair, and smooth face. Stoatman is a German, twenty-five years of age, 5 feet 9 inches high, medium build, fair complexion, and smooth face. Dickman is a German, twenty-three years of age, 5 feet 2 or 3 inches high, slight build, fair hair, and small moustache ; they all speak good English. A reward of £2 each is offered for their arrest.