Offences Not Otherwise Described.

New Zealand Police Gazette, Volume V, Issue 16, 10 August 1881, Page 131

Offences Not Otherwise Described.

John I). Costbo is charged, on warrant issued by the Dunedin Bench, with uttering a forged cheque for £2 ss. to Alexander Owen, in the Ship Inn, Dunedin, on the Bth ultimo. Description: Supposed to be a Spaniard, a clerk or waiter, about thirty-six years of age, 5 feet 4 or 5 inches high, medium build, dark complexion and eyes, dark hair, clean-shaved except black moustache; when last seen wore dark-tweed suit and hard black-felt hat. He left Dunedin on the Bth ultimo by train, supposed for Oamaru. The cheque purported to be signed by Wilkins and Co., Cumberland Street, Dunedin.

A man, name unknown, is charged, on warrant issued by the Dunedin Bench, with obtaining a pair of cookham boots, value £1 12s. 6d., on the 7th ultimo, from John Elliott, George Street, Dunedin, by false representations. Description: English, about fifty years of age, 5 feet 9 or 10 inches high, medium build, sallow complexion, Roman nose, grey hair, full grey beard and whiskers, no moustache, turns his toes out when walking ; when last seen wore light-grey-tweed suit and small round dark-tweed liat. Identifiable. He falsely represented that ho was messenger at the Bank of New Zealand, and that he was sent for the boots by Mr. G. Perrier, the Manager.

(See Police Gazette, 1881, page 123.) John Symington, charged on warrant with embezzling £1

65., the money of Henry Knight, has been arrested by Sergeant Edward Hughes, Christchurch Police, and sentenced to one month’s labour.