Housebreaking, Stealing from the Person and from Dwellings.

New Zealand Police Gazette, Volume V, Issue 10, 18 May 1881, Page 81

Housebreaking, Stealing from the Person and from Dwellings.

Richard Medex and Mary Robertson are charged, on warrant issued by the Port Chalmers Bench, with stealing, between (lie Ist and 30ih ultimo, from the store of William Howell, at Sawyer’s Bay, 12s in silver, forty cakes of tobacco, two teapots, two china plates, a china mug, a jug, and six plates (s’nce recovered, except money and tobacco); value £2 12s. Description : Medex is English, a carpenter, thirty-seven years of age, 5 feet 5 or 6 inches high, medium build, fresh complexion, small grey eyes, full round face, small chin, brown hair, clean-shaved except small fair moustache; dressed in light-tweed coat, printed brown-moleskin trousers, and hard black-felt hat; peculiar hoarse voice. Robertson is Irish, thirty years of age, medium height and build, black hair, large black eyes, heavy dark eyebrows, and large mouth. They went to Dunedin or' Invercargill.

Josepii Rickets Jeetes is charged, on warrant issued by the Te Aroha Bench, with stealing, on the 4th January last, from the dwelling of James John Cole, at Kutikati, a saddle and bridle, since recovered, value £5 10s. Description : English, a butcher and horse- and cattle-dealer, about thirty-six years of age, about 5 feet 7 inches high, stout build, fresh complexion, dark-brown hair, brown beard, whiskers, and moustache worn full, slightly bow-legged ; speaks quickly ; when last seen wore grey speckled-tweed suit and soft black-felt hat; slovenly gait, horsey appearance. He left the Thames on the Bth January last for Auckland.

Robert Taylor is charged, on warrant issued by the Malvern Bench, with stealing, between the 18th and 24th ultimo, from the whare of Arthur Henery, at G-landore Station, a nearlv-new single-breasted tweed vest with three buttons on front, centre one off; value Bs. Identifiable. Description: Supposed English, a labourer, about twenty-three years of age, about 5 feet 8 or 9 inches high, slight build, rather dark complexion, dark hair worn short, small dark moustache, and very little, if any, beard or whiskers ; usually wears dark-tweed suit and soft darkfelt hat. He was seen in Christchurch on the 4th instant.

Between 6.20 p.m. on the 2nd and 9 a.m. on the 3rd instant the shop of George Hooper, Cashel Street, Christchurch, was broken into, and the following described property stolen : A ladies’ gold keyless hunting watch, Ho. 60227; a ladies’ gold open-face English lever, gold dial, No. 6468; two ladies’ gold hunting Genevas, Nos. 27197 and 7054; a gentlemen’s openface silver Geneva keyless watch, black dial, white figures, No. 19642 ; a silver hunting English lever, maker Rotherham, No. 3144; a silver hunting English lever, maker ChapliD, No. 22218; six gold Geneva watches, makers’ names and numbers not known ; nineteen silver Genevas and hunting levers, numbers and makers’ names not known; a gentlemen’s diamond ring with single stone; a gold sapphire ring, plain setting, A 33 on inside ; a plain gold diamond buckle ring, about i inch broad ; two plain gold diamond rings, claw setting ; a plain gold diamond buckle ring; a ladies’ gold diamond dress ring, three diamonds in square setting, 97/6 scratched on inside ; a gold brooch with a large diamond in centre of four smaller ones, and four pearls round edge ; a gold diamond brooch set with turquoise ; a gold oval diamond brooch with kangaroo and emu; a gold diamond brooch with large cairngorm in wreath of fern ; a gold diamond brooch, round floral pattern, set with emei'alds ; a gold diamond brooch, plain and engraved; two gold diamond brooches, floral, with ruby in centre; a gold diamond brooch, floral, with emerald and tassel; a gold diamond reversible oval brooch ; a gold brooch and earrings, oval floral pattern, small ruby in centre; an oval gold brooch and earrings set with rubies and pearls; a gold brooch and earrings, round plain pattern, a pearl in each ; three gold oral lockets, diamond in centre, engraved edges, centre plain ; a large oblong gold locket, engraved ; a large gold necklet, 18-carat, twisted gold wire Prince of Wales pattern; a large gold necklet, 18 carat, cable pattern; a large gold necklet, princess pattern, square links, large oval locket with “ Mizpah ” in round letters thereon; a large gold necklet, elongated flat links, engraved on one side, plain on the other, large plain gold locket attached; a gold necklet, fine round wire pattern, large gold oval locket with large diamond in centre attached; a large gold bar locket with one diamond and two rubies in centre, sides engraved, centre plain ; a large gold oval locket, plain centre, diamonds and sapphires in floral setting ; a ladies’ gold albert, princess pattern, square links, with gold tassel and pendant; a ladies’ very fine gold-wire albert, large slide at top with pearl in centre, two gold tassels at each side, bar at top ; a ladies’ gold albert, two oval bars in centre with sapphire in each, tassel attached; a set of gold solitaires, round pattern, with blood-stone; a pair of gold earrings, oblong pattern, with pearls and emeralds; a pair of gold drop earrings ; a pair of plain round gold earrings ; a pair of gold elongated earrings ; a pair of plain round gold earrings; a pair of pear-pattern gold earrings with round ball in centre ; a pair of gold-leaf earrings ; a pair of gold half-mourning earrings with onyx and emerald on sides ; a pair of plain gold earrings, imitation tiger-claw pattern ; a ladies’ gold ring with cluster of diamonds ; a ladies’ gold ring with hair enclosed all round, partly engraved ; six ladies’ gold rings, flat pattern, three or four various-coloured stones in each; thirty-six ladies’ gold rings, various patterns, with stones; twelve gold keeper rings, round pattern; twelve silver rings with sardonyx and bloodstones ; eleven silver lockets, various patterns ; five sets of silver brooches and earrings, various patterns; twelve ladies’ silver albert chains, various patterns; and eight gentlemen’s silver albert chains, various patterns ; value £522 4s. 6d. Identifiable.

During the night of the 7th instant the store of Janies Sutherland, Shag Point, Otago, was broken into, and a darktweed suit of clothes, size 7, and six pairs of cotton drawers, value £5 10s., stolen. Clothes identifiable.

Stolen on the 12th instant, from the dwelling of Gerit Alexander Chalmers, Queen Street, Dunedin, a ladies’ hooppattern ring with five diamonds, value £4O ; a ladies’ hooppattern ring with three diamonds, value £SO ; a ladies’ blackenamelled mourning ring with three diamonds, value £lO 10s.; a ladies’ rose-cluster diamond ring, one small diamond missing, value £10; a ladies’ ring with opal and two diamonds, value £ls; a ladies’ topaz ring with one diamond, value £2 10s. ; a gentlemen’s gold ring with one diamond in gipsy setting, value £10; and a gentlemen’s snake-pattern gold ring with amethyst and two diamonds, value £B. Identifiable.

Stolen between the 9th and llth instant, from the Supreme Court, Dunedin, an old round-faced eight-day clock, maker Beverly, Dunedin ; the property of the Government; value £3. Identifiable.

(See Police Gazette , 1881, page 53.) The girls’ brown-rep dress-body stolen from the dwelling of Elizabeth Ann Ellis, at Bingsland, has been recovered.

(See Police Gazette, 1881, page 72.)

The flannel stolen from the shop-door of Robert Donnelly, Adelaide Road, has been recovered, and Benjamin Henry Brocklin arrested for the offence by Constable Henry Gordon, Wellington Police, and sentenced to three months’ labour. Brocklin was also sentenced to six months’ labour on two other charges of larceny.

Stolen on the 29th ultimo, from a bedroom in the Melville Hotel, Timaru, a three-quarter plate chronograph lever watch, plain hunting cases with engraved hoop round front case, -flat crystal glass, makers Stewart, Daivson, and Co., Liverpool, No. 84106; the property of John Drysdale; value £LO. Identifiable.

During the night of the 29th ultimo the slaughterhouse of Little Brothers, at Palmerston South, was broken into, and about 60 lb. of beef and two hind-quarters of lamb, value £l, stolen.

Stolen on the 28th ultimo, from the shop-door of Paul Northey, Colombo Street, Christchurch, a ladies’ black-cloth jacket, trimmed with black fur ; value 15s. 6d. Identifiable.

Stolen on the 20th March last, from the Ashburton Hotel, Ashburton, a ladies’ colonial-gold double albert, 13 inches long, curb-pattern, three slides, middle one stationary, the other two slide up and down, gold bar at end, an English gold key with stone in centre, one side green and yellow, the other side dark green, attached ; the property of Jessie Mutch ; value £6 10s. Identifiable.

Stolen on the 2nd instant, from the shop-window of John Cother, Cashel Street, Christchurch, a ladies’ black-cloth ribbed jacket, trimmed with imitation black fur, bugle fringe under pockets ; value £1 2s. 6d. Identifiable.

Stolen between the 12th and 21st ultimo, from the dwelling of Mrs. Edward Jones, Green Island Bush, a gold ring with five pearls, one of which is slightly black ; value £5. Identifiable. *

Stolen about the llth ultimo, from the shop of George Taylor, Manchester Street, Christchurch, four packages of fancy pocketknives, six in each package, two of the packages contained knives with white-bone handles, a blade in one end and a pen and pencil-holder in the other end, “ Six knives ” marked on some of the haudles ; one package contained knives with brown-wooden handles with a blade at each end, the other package contained knives with brown-wooden handles in form of a rifle, with blade in butt and pencil in muzzle; value £4 10s. Identifiable. Suspicion attached to James Davie, who was examining knives in the shop. Description : English, a hawker, twenty years of age, 5 feet 8 inches high, slight build, sallow complexion, pimples on face, dark hair, clean-slmved; wears dark-tweed suit and black billycock hat. He drives a grey horse in spring-cart, and frequently visits Greendale.

During the night of the 29th ultimo the City Council Offices, Queen Street, Auckland, were broken into, and a cash-box which was kept in a safe in the Treasurer’s office broken open, and £lO 10s. in gold, ten £1 notes, and £4 10s. in silver stolen; the property of the Auckland City Corporation.

Stolen on the 30th ultimo, from the person of Daniel Gleeson, in the Railway Hotel, Erankton, Auckland District, three £1 notes, a half-sovereign, and 7s. 6d in silver.

Stolen during the night of the 24th ultimo, from the shop of Charlotte Schafer, West Queen Street, Auckland, a pound-cake and a quantity of fruit; value Bs.

Stolen between the 23rd and 25th ultimo, from the shopdoor of William Jaggs, at Cambridge, a fancy single-breasted paget-coat, and a double-breasted vest, dark-tweed, bound; value £4 10s. Identifiable.

Stolen between the 24th and 28th ultimo, from the tent of James Cullow, at Hukanui, Auckland, an open-face English silver lever watch, well worn, maker’s name and number not known, brass guard attached ; value £5. Identifiable.

Stolen on the 9th ultimo, from the shop-door of Peter Robinson, Symonds Street Auckland, a case marked LDN in diamond, containing four dozen tins of Auglo-Swiss preserved milk ; value £1 16s.

Stolen on the 30th ultimo, from the dwelling of Ellen Gillick at Invercargill, a ladies’ nearly-new double-rein bridle, curved bit and curb chain, choke lash leather tassel, and rosettes on each side of forehead band ; value £2 10s. Identifiable. Suspicion attached to a man, name unknown, supposed to be a native of the colonies, a stockman, about twenty-seven years of age, 5 feet 11 inches high, medium build, brown hair, long thin sandy beard, whiskers and moustache; wore black coat, brown-tweed trousers, felt hat, and Wellington or elasticside boots.

Stolen between the Ist and sth instant, from the person of William Simm, at Christchurch, a silver lever hunting-watch, maker J. Hyman, No. 25756 ; value £5. Identifiable. Suspicion attached to James White. (For his description, &c., see Police Gazette, 1878, page 137, and 1880, page 176.) He left Christchurch on the sth instant for Oamaru or Dunedin.

Stolen on the 3rd instant, from a bedroom in the Royal Hotel, Christchurch, an American hunting lever watch, number and maker’s name not known, round link aluminum albert guard attached ; the property of Thomas Scott; value £2 10s. Identification doubtful.

Stolen between the 17th and 20th ultimo, from a bedroom in a boarding-house at Te Kopuru, a ladies’ gold buckle ring with two blue stones, shield of buckle broken off; the property of James Virtue ; value £1 ss. Identifiable.

Stolen on the sth instant, from a whare at Okotuku, near Waverley, a black-clotli coat, three singlets, two flannels, a softfelt hat, a looking-glass, a leather dressing-case, an inkstand, a comb, a bag, a leather belt, a pair of elastic-side boots with heel and toe plates, a wooden pipe, two pen-knives, Miller’s Jest Book, a book of trades, a pair of moleskin trousers, a tin of pepper, 60 lb. of flour, 1 lb. of tea, 1 lb. of tobacco, and three boxes of matches ; the property of James Austin; value £9 15s. 9d. Nearly all identifiable. Maoris suspected.

Stolen on the 6th instant, from the dwelling of William Davis, Springston, Canterbury, a very old red-leather pocketbook containing two £1 notes, a lialf-crowm, and fourpence. Pocketbook identifiable. Suspicion attached to a swagman, name unknown, who was seen coming out of the house. Description : About thirty-five years of age, 5 feet 8 or 9 inches high, well built, fair complexion, black eyes, black hair, beard, whiskers, and moustache ; wore dark-cloth jacket, dark trousers, light-felt hat, and elastic-side boots ; carried a tent swag, and had with him a grey terrier dog. Supposed to have gone towards Christchurch.

On the morning of the 6th instant the Ponsonby Club Hotel, Auckland, was broken into, and a till containing 15s. in silver and copper and some papers stolen ; the property of William Stanford. A battered and burnt threepenny piece, which was among the silver, can be identified. The till and papers have been recovered.

Stolen on the 6th instant, from a bedroom in the New Zealand Restaurant, Manchester Street, Christchurch, a small gold hunting lever watch, No. 73672, no maker’s name; the property of Mary Phipps; value£s. Identifiable. Suspicion attached to William Yielding, alias Loames. (For his description, &c., see Police Gazette, 1880, page 184.)