Offences Not Otherwise Described.

New Zealand Police Gazette, Volume III, Issue 15, 16 July 1879, Page 121

Offences Not Otherwise Described.

(See Police Gazette , 1879, page 96.) It. Mulgrew, charged with having obtained goods and money from Daniel Arkell, at Mercer, by means of a valueless cheque, has been arrested by the Cambridge Police. He has been committed for trial for uttering valueless cheques at Cambridge.

£2O Reward

Whereas James Lyons, an important witness in the case of James and Patrick McMenamin, charged with arson, having failed to appear to give evidence at the Resident Magistrate’s Court at Invercargill, on Ihe sth of May, 1879, and whereupon a warrant was issued for the arrest of the said James Lyons : This is to notify that a reward of £2O is offered for such information as may be given to the police that shall lead to the arrest of the said James Lyons. Description of James Lyons : Forty-six years of age, 5 feet 8£ inches high, stout square build, brown hair, whiskers, and moustache, grey eyes, flat nose, native of Ireland, a labourer, has been in the army and through the Maori war. Last heard of on the 9th ultimo, about five miles from Tapanui. Particular marks : The name “ Mary Murphy,” also “ anchor and star,” tattooed on right arm. G. S. Whitmore, Commissioner, Armed Constabulary. Armed Constabulary Office, Wellington, 14th June, 1879. Lyons was seen about three weeks ago at the Haast Pass, on his way to Westland.

On the morning of the 19th ultimo two stones were found placed on the rails of the railway line about half a mile from the Bluff Station.

Edward William Bennett is charged, on warrant issued by the Napier Bench, with wilfully and maliciously breaking a window with a stone, and damaging trees to the value of £l, at Napier, on the 27th ultimo ; the property of Major Slingsby Bell. Description: English, a gardener, about forty-eight years of age, about 5 feet 6 inches high, stout build, fair complexion, fair hair and whiskers mixed with grey, chin shaved, two or three front teeth wanting, impediment in speech; wore greytweed suit and white-felt hat.