Housebreaking, Stealing from the Person and from Dwellings.

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

Housebreaking, Stealing from the Person and from Dwellings.

John Sullivan is charged, on warrant issued by the Timaru Bench, with stealing, on the 27th June last, from the Shamrock Hotel, Timaru, a brown ribbed-clotli overcoat, since recovered ; value £2; the property of Maurice Drury. Description: English, a labourer, sixty-nine years of age, 5 feet 5 inches high, medium build, grey hair, beard, whiskers, and moustache ; wore old greytweed sac-coat, moleskin trousers, and soft black-felt hat. He left the Charitable Aid Home, Christchurch, about the 15th ultimo.

Stolen on the 21st ultimo, from the Prince Albert Boardinghouse, Ashburton, a new double-breasted blue-beaver-cloth overcoat, lined with black Italian cloth, sleeves lined with drabcloth buttons, an inside and three outside pockets, “ W. Strange and Co.” on tape at collar, size 5 ; the property of Joseph George Green, value £1 9s. 6d. Identifiable.

Dubing the night of the 26t,h ultimo the dwelling of Walter Reeves, Otaio, Canterbury, was broken into, and a cash-box containing insurance policies and other valuable documents stolen. The cash-box has since been found on the road near the house broken open, but none of the contents stolen. Suspicion attached to John Opie, James Gaby, and William Price, servants in Mr. Reeves’s employment.

Stolen on the 25th ultimo, from the shop of James Rhodes, at Patea, a pair of ladies’ kid shoes, a pair of girls’ kid shoes, a pair of girls’ prunella boots, and a pair of children’s lace boots; value £1 14s. 6d. Identifiable. Suspicion attached to a man, name unknown, a shoemaker, forty-five years of age, 5 feet 6 inches high, medium build, sandy complexion, hair and whiskers turning grey ; wore grey coat and black hat; carried shoemakers’ tools rolled up in an old apron. He went towards Hawera.

On the Ist instant the hut of John Middleton, near Brunswick Railway-station, Wanganui, was broken into, and three £1 notes and about 10s. in silver stolen.

Dubing the night of the 22nd ultimo the dwelling of John Carl, Papanui Road, Christchurch, was broken into, and the following stolen : A dark-brown check-tweed waterproof overcoat, with black velvet collar, and belt which buttons at back; two new meerschaum pipes, medium size, one with crooked stem, the other with straight stem and crooked amber mouthpiece ; j lb. of cut tobacco, 3 lb. of sausages, and a loaf of bread ; value £3 14s. Overcoat and pipes identifiable.

Stolen on the 23rd ultimo, from the shop-door of Charles Albert Gaze, at Wanganui, a small octagon lever clock, 6-inch dial, a small chip out of one of angles ; value 15s. Identifiable.

Stolen between the 23rd and 25th ultimo, from the whare of George Bocock, at Eltham, Taranaki, a sack swag consisting of two old blue blankets with a black stripe at ends, one end of both blankets hemmed with red worsted, the other ends with cotton ; a light-coloured thick woollen overcoat with large whitebone buttons, a pair of old dark-coloured moleskin trousers, a short drab jacket with velvet collar and brown-bone buttons, a nearly-new white calico shirt, and a white-flannel shirt marked GB with red cotton ; value £3. Identifiable.

Stolen on the 18th ultimo, from the shop of Mrs. Louisa Wiggins, G-rey Street, Auckland, 15 lb. of bacon ; value 15s.

Stolen on the 22nd ultimo, from the bedroom of Kate Davies, Albion Hotel, Maclaggan Street, Dunedin, forty-five £1 notes and about £2 in silver. Suspicion attached to James Clayton Davies, English, a labourer, twenty-eight years of age, 5 feet 8 inches high, medium build, fresh complexion, fair hair, cleanshaved except small fair moustache ; wore dark-grey coat and vest, dark-brown tweed trousers, and soft black-felt hat.

(See Police Gazette, 1881, page 108.)

Stealing- a gold watch, &c., from the Temuka Hotel, Temuka, the property of Thomas Joseph Selious. —The gold watch and chain have been found in possession of John Powell, arrested by Sergeant Henry Martin, Auckland Police, and remanded to Timaru.

Austin Nicholls reports that, at 6.30 p.m. on the 14th ultimo, while riding on the Tamumu Road, towards Waipawa, two men, whom be can neither describe nor identify, attempted to stop bis horse by endeavouring to seize the reins of his bridle, supposed with the intention of robbing him. Nicholls was under the influence of drink at the time, and bis statement appears doubtful.

Stolen about the 25th ultimo, from the shop of George Philp, at Lyttelton, a cardboard box, 9 inches long, 6 inches wide, and 1 inch deep, inside of bottom and top lined with velvet, containing twelve penknives, about 3 inches long and i inch wide, pearl handles with brass mountings; supposed to have one large and two small blades ; value £1 16s. Identifiable. Suspicion attached to eight or nine Chinamen belonging to the crew of the steamer “Bowen.”

During the night of the 26th ultimo a window in the shop of James William Horner, at Papanui, was broken, and about 10 lb. of small plug tobacco, value £3 10s., stolen.

SurrosED stolen during the night of the 19th ultimo, from the person of John Harper, while drunk at Christchurch, a silver lever hunting-watch, maker Stamford, London, No. 60639, a common long-linked steel albert chain attached; value £lO. Identifiable.

Stolen during the night of the 12th ultimo, from the Temperance Hall, Moray Place, Dunedin, a nearly-new doublebreasted blue napped-cloth half-ulster overcoat, a few brown stains on right side of front, lined with black silesia, black-bone buttons; the property of James Martin Davidson; value £3 10s. Identifiable.

(See Police Gazette, 1881, page 83.)

The ladies’ gold buckle-ring, the property of James Virtue, stolen from a boarding-house at Te Kopuru, has been recovered.

On the morning of the 20th ultimo the shop of George Lowe, Ponsonby Road, Auckland, was broken into, and £4 in silver, and a silver Geneva bunting-watch, glass broken, maker Russell, number not known, value £4, stolen. Watch identifiable.

Stolen on the 9th ultimo, from the Governor Browne Hotel, Auckland, a new brown-cloth overcoat with light rib in material, a small tear in one of skirts, “ New Zealand Clothing Eactory ” on neck-strap; the property of Edward Eox; value £2. Identifiable. Also an old blue pilot-cloth overcoat; the property of Thomas Eurniral; value 10s. Identifiable.

Stolen on the 23rd ultimo, from the dwelling of Mary De Lacey, alias Maunsell, alias Buckingham, at Eraser’s Lane, Wellington, an ordinary black-and-gilt cash-box, containing a post-office savings-bank book in Mrs. Walter Buckingham’s name, No. 19972, issued at Wellington, £IOO to credit; an insurance policy for £250 on furniture in Mrs. De Lacey’s name; a bill for £5 drawn by Walter Bedford on a Mr. Hammond, of Auckland, in favour of Mrs. Maunsell; a bill for £6 drawn by Walter Bedford on a Mr. Hammond, of Auckland, in favour of Mary Buckingham ; a pawn ticket issued at Davis’s pawn office, Christchurch, to Mr. Bedford for a greenstone brooch, on which Bs. was advanced; and a number of letters

All identifiable. Suspicion attached to Jennie Collins, alias Mrs. Joe Poole, a prostitute, who left Wellington on the 23rd ultimo by the steamer “ Wakatipu ” for Sydney.

(See Police Gazette, 1881, page 124.) The money reported stolen from the bedroom of Dorothea Shultz, East Street, Newton, Auckland, has been recovered.

Stolen between the 16th and 19th ultimo, from the bedroom of John Bath, Yarrow Street, Invercargill, a £lO note. Suspicion attached to Mary Leghorn, a servant employed in the house. Description : Scotch, about twenty-three years of age, 5 feet high, fair complexion, brown hair, pupil of one of eyes enlarged ; usually dressed in black and imitation sealskin hat.

Stolen on the 21st ultimo, from the dwelling of John Gordon, Corwar Station, near Barrhill, an open-face English silver lever watch, silver dial, No. 51634, maker’s name not known, a steel guard with four brass links in centre, two common watchkeys, and two threepenny-pieces attached; value £5. Identifiable.

Stolen during the night of the 22nd ultimo, from the shop of Henderson and Mcßeath, at Sydenham, a shilling and threepence in copper.

On the morning of the 28th ultimo a window' in the shop of Messrs. Sparrow and Wilkinson, Cumberland Street, Dunedin, was broken, and three bright-steel knobs used on front of cooking-ranges, and a small round brass spring-bell, stolen; value 10s. Identifiable.

Stolen between the Ist and 28th ultimo, from the shop-door of Charles Richard Church, High Street, Christchurch, a roll of blue-merino cloth containing about 25 yards ; value £3. Board on which the cloth was rolled identifiable.

Stolen on the 2nd instant, from a bedroom in the Royal Hotel, Port Chalmers, a ladies’ small open-face English gold Geneva watch, gold dial and hands, supposed black-steel figures, flowered on back case ; a ladies’ English gold chain, common link pattern, colonial gold cross £ inch long by £ inch wide attached; and a pair of colonial gold earrings about the size and shape of a shilling, a small diamond in centre of each, like wheel-cogs round edge ; the property of James Morkane ; value £22. Identifiable.

(See Police Gazette, 1881, page 124.) Stealing from the store of Alexander Garden, at Havelock —The elastic waist-belt was not stolen.

Supposed stolen during the night of the 7th ultimo, from a brothel in Eraser’s Lane, Wellington, a ladies’ plain gold hoop ring with five diamonds in a row; the property of Margaret Baker ; value £26. Identifiable. Suspicion attached to a man named Nathan, who w T as in the brothel. Description: Supposed English, a bookmaker and card-sharper, twenty-five years of age, 5 feet 8 inches high, slight build, dark hair and moustache, no beard or whiskers; wore grey-tweed suit and hard round black-felt hat; smart active appearance. He is supposed to be at Wanganui, and may be wearing the ring.

(See Police Gazette, 1881, page 29.)

The silver watch stolen from the person of George Colville, at Carlyle, has been rocovered. It was found in the possession of George Adams, arrested for the offence by Sergeant John Donovan, Patea Police, but the case was dismissed. Adams said he bought the watch from a man with sandy hair, of medium build, at Hawera, about the time it was stolen.

Stolen between the 30th ultimo and the Ist instant, from the store of William Lane and Co., Maclaggan Street, Dunedin, a case containing twelve bottles of old tom, case marked “ Celebrated Old Tom Gin, Burnett’s, Vauxhall, London,” in circle, and “F. and Co.” in diamond; value £2 2s. Case identifiable.

Stolen on the 29th ultimo, from the sliop-door of Barnabas James Hall, Colombo Street, Christchurch, a pair of men’s clogs, size 10, “B. J. Hall ” stamped on inside of upper ; value 10s. 6d. Identifiable.

Stolen on the 4th instant, from a bedroom in the Royal Hotel, Walker Street, Dunedin, a pair of English-gold earrings, eagle-and-drop pattern, in brown-morocco case; a large oval colonial-gold locket, glass in back, front chased ; a pair of very dark-composition bracelets, 2 inches wide; and 7s. in silver; jewellery value about £7. Identifiable.

Stolen between the 30th ultimo and 2nd instant, from the shop of John Moison, at Ashburton, a pair of men’s elastic-

side boots with steel points in soles, no plates, black waist, size 7£- in length, and size 10 in width ; value £1 ss. Identifiable.