Deserters from Her Majesty’s Service.

New Zealand Police Gazette, Volume V, Issue 17, 24 August 1881, Page 144

Deserters from Her Majesty’s Service.

Deserted from Her Majesty’s ship “ Inconstant,” at Sydney, between the 15th and the 22nd ultimo: —

Arthur Rogers, able seaman, twenty-six years of age, 5 feet 9} inches high, brown hair, hazel eyes, fair complexion. Frederick Lee, ordinary seaman, second class, twenty-one years of age, 5 feet 9£ inches high, red hair, grey eyes, fresh complexion. Joseph S. Woodward, ordinary seaman, twenty-four years of age, 5 feet 4 inches high, black hair, hazel eyes, fresh complexion. George Williams, able seaman, twenty-three years of age, 5 feet 10 inches high, light-brown hair, hazel eyes, fresh complexion. Walter Myers, ordinary seaman, twenty years of age, 5 feet 4 inches high, dark-brown hair, dark-blue eyes, fair complexion. William Collins, ordinary seaman, twenty-one years of age, 5 feet s]j- inches high, light hair, grey eyes, fair complexion. Francis Rowland, private, Royal Marine Light Infantry, twenty-six years of age, 5 feet 9 inches high, brown hair, grey eyes, fresh complexion. Hobart Kerr, private, Royal Marine Light Infantry, twentythree years of age, 5 feet 7 inches high, black hair, brown oyes, sallow complexion. Arthur Fawcett, ropemaker, twenty-four years of age, 5 feet 7 inches high, brown hair and eyes, fair complexion. James J. Godfrey, ordinary seaman, twenty years of age, 5 feet 4 inches high, brown hair, blue eyes, pale complexion, scar on left thigh. Henry A. Sewell, ordinary seaman, twenty-one years of age, 5 feet 5 inches high, dark hair, grey eyes, pale complexion. Frederick A. Smith, ordinary seaman, twenty-six years of age, 5 feet 5 inches high, black hair, grey eyes, dark complexion, half bracelet on left wrist.

James Nunn, boy, first class, eighteen years of age, 5 feet 4 inches high, dark-brown hair and eyes, dark complexion; OTN on right arm. George Jones, boy, first class, seventeen years of age, 5 feet 3 inches high, dark-brown hair, light-brown eyes, dark complexion. Frederick Easterbook, boy, first class, seventeen years of age, 5 feet 4 inches high, black hair, brown eyes, dark complexion ; “1 love E. Martin” on left arm.

George Hurley, ordinary seaman, twenty years of age, 5 feet 2 inches high, light-brown hair, grey eyes, fresh complexion. Thomas W. Thomas, private, Royal Marine Light Infantry, twenty-one years of age, 5 feet 9 inches high, brown hair, grey eyes, fresh complexion. John Goodcliill, ordinary seaman, twenty years of age, 5 feet 7 inches high, light hair, grey eyes, fair compexion, tattooed on left wrist and hand, scar on right leg. Patrick Horrigan, ordinary seaman, 5 feet 5 inches high, grey hair, brown eyes, fresh complexion. A reward of £3 each is offered for their arrest, in addition to £5 reward offered by the Colonial Government.

Deserted from Her Majesty’s ship “Cleopatra,” at Sydney, on the 23rd and 25th ultimo : Arthur A. Brooks, a native of Jaybridge, Devon, an engineer’s servant, twenty years of age, 5 feet 7 inches high, brown hair, grey eyes, fresh complexion. Henry R. Greenfield, ordinary seaman, formerly naval schoolmaster, a native of Harwich, Essex, twenty-four years of age, 5 feet 5 inches high, brown hair, light-blue eyes, fresh complexion. A reward of £3 each is offered for their arrest, in addition to £5 reward offered by i he Colonial Government.

(See Police Gazette, 1881, pages 118 and 126.)

Thomas Wood, John Hippisley, Charles Sellen, and James Hart, charged with deserting from Her Majesty’s ship “ Inconstant,” at Melbourne, have been arrested by the Yictoria Police,

(See Police Gazette, 1881, page 126.) James Bessent and John Jupp, charged with deserting from Her Majesty’s ship “ Tourmaline,” at Melbourne, hare been arrested by the Victoria Police.