Deserting Wives and Families, &c.

New Zealand Police Gazette, Volume IV, Issue 26, 29 December 1880, Page 219

Deserting Wives and Families, &c.

John Brooks is charged, on warrant issued by the Masterton Bench, with disobeying a summons to appear at the Resident Magistrate’s Court, Masterton, on the 23rd instant, to give evidence in a case of larceny. Description: English, about thirty-five years of age, 5 feet 5 or 6 inches high, medium build, dark complexion, dark hair, whiskers, and moustache ; dressed in dark-tweed or serge coat, dark-moleskin trousers, and hard black-felt hat, erect gait; had been in the army. He left Masterton on the 22nd instant by train, supposed for Wellington, and will likely go from thence to Lyttelton.

(See Police Gazette, 1880, page 158.)

; Mary Ann Shannon, alias Margaret Farrell, charged on warrant with habitual drunkenness, is at present employed at Mr. Flutine’s dairy farm, Paikakariki. It is not desirable that she should be arrested, unless she returns to Wellington.

(See Police Gazette, 1880, page 206.)

Thomas Peter Gleeson, charged on warrant with deserting his wife at Hinds, has been arrested by Constable Thomas Loose, Geraldine Police.

(See Police Gazette, 1880, page 173.) The warrant issued for the arrest of George Taylor Mayne, for deserting his wife at Norinanby, has been cancelled.

(See Police Gazette, 1880, page 197.)

Jeremiah Cronin, charged with deserting his wife and two children at Palmerston South, has been arrested by Constable Henry Frotwell, Mataura Police, and ordered to pay 12s. per week towards their support.

(See Police Gazette, 1880, page 166.)

William Scott, charged on warrant with disobeying a summons to answer a charge of assault, &c., has been arrested by Constable Thomas Livingstone, Duntroon Police, and remanded to Palmerston South.