Extracts from Victoria Police Gazette.

New Zealand Police Gazette, Volume V, Issue 18, 7 September 1881, Page 156

Extracts from Victoria Police Gazette.

(From Gazette, 1881, pages 199, 202, and 205.) The shop of James Ninnis, pawnbroker, 44, Bourke Street West, Melbourne, was broken into about 1 a.m., 17th instant, and the following stolen : —Watches : Gold hunting lever, Hy. Carter, London, 8213 ; ditto ditto, three-quarter plate, Rotherhams, 82836 ; gold hunting Geneva, 14k, 34514; ditto ditto, 18k, 45312 ; ditto ditto, 44133; ditto ditto, 18k, Baume, 115271 ; ditto ditto, keyless, 9k, 5 ditto ditto, keyless, 9k, 1003 ; ditto ditto, keyless, 9k, smooth cases, 1000 ; ditto ditto, 18k, 101106; ditto ditto, keyless, 14k, 18235; ditto ditto, keyless, 14k, 18229; ditto ditto, keyless, 14k, 18231; ditto ditto, keyless, 14k, smooth cases, 18232; gold open-face Geneva, 14k, 4055 ; ditto ditto, 11150 ; gold open-face Geneva lever, 17064, D. Barlow, maker; gold open-face lever, Duke, Maddox St> eet; gold open-face Geneva, 30993 ; silver hunting lever, American, 21420 ; silver hunting Geneva, Louis, 18843 ; silver hunting three-quarter plate lever, Westrop and Russell, 28047 ; silver hunting Geneva, luminous dial, 92291; silver hunting Geneva, 42; silver open-face lever, Hall, 1460; silver hunting American, 35531; silver half-hunting Geneva, 7303 ; silver hunting American, 45863 ; ditto ditto, 933 ; silver hunting lever, Chaplin and Co., 32774 ; silver hunting lever, F. Pearce, Newcastle and Limerick, 41519; ditto ditto, S. Abrahams, London, 6168; ditto ditto, Stanford, 9562; ditto ditto, Borrell, 25330; ditto ditto, Abbott and Co., 2557; ditto ditto, Whitehouse, Hampstead Road, 3459 ; ditto ditto, Dent, 31889 ; ditto ditto, three-quarter plate, Cole, Hobart, 20183 ; ditto ditto, Settle and Sons, 63603 ; ditto ditto, three-quarter plate, McCabe, 14341 ; ditto ditto, Read, Sr., 42692 ; ditto ditto, H. Turner, 21640; gold hunting lever, three-quarter plate, centre seconds, stop watch, 18-carat, smooth cases, £25 ; gold hunting lever, 9-carat, £l6. Jewellery: Rings—l 6 gold wedding and keepers. Chains—silver. Rings—l blue enamel, 5 diamonds, value £4O ; l cluster diamond, about 15 small stones, £2O; 1 plain single stone, £lO ; half-hoop, 5 stones, £2O ; 1 ditto, ditto, £l2; 1 ditto, ditto, £lO. Chains —ladies’ long colonial gold, with pendant and tassel, £io; gold albert, 18-carat, links more than an inch long, with compass and coin attached, £l4; gold albert, 9 carat, large curb links, about 3| ounces, £lO ; and about 12 other gold chains, various kinds. Bracelet—colonial gold, with pearls and amethysts. Lockets — about 20 gold, various kinds ; and silver negligees and lockets. Seals —6 old-fashioned gold, trinkets. Rings—about 20 gentlemen’s 9-carat signet; about 12 ladies’ dress rings, set with small diamonds, rubies, pearls, sapphires, &c. ; about 12 other rings, colonial gold. Brooches —colonial gold, star pattern, sot with pearls ; a colonial gold cameo brooch, large, female head. Total value about £SOO. —O. 5298. —17th August, 1881.

Mary Ann Walker is charged on warrant with the larceny as a bailee of a quantity of furniture, value £3O, since recovered, and a gold hunting Geneva watch, No. 4656, private number on dome 4141, a gold albert chain, and gold locket chased at each side, value £5 (since recovered, pledged at Mendel Cohen’s, pawnbroker, Swanston Street, Melbourne), on the 10tli August, at 9, Chapman Street, Hotham ; the property of John McKay, fireman, Lennon’s Foundry, Munster Terrace, Hotham. Description : Londoner, thirty-seven years of age, 5 feet 4 or 5 inches high, stout build, fair complexion, full round features, dark hair turning grey, good teeth, small wart on right upper lip; dresses well and wears jewellery, has a puce-velvet hat trimmed with pheasant’s wing and gold-coloured beads across the front. She was barmaid at Prendergast’s American Bar, Bourke Street East. She will be likely to leave for Sydney or New' Zealand. —5197. —15th August, 1881.

(See Otago Police Gazette, 1876, page 25.)

James Brady, alias Burns, alias Reilly, has been arrested by the Deniliquin (New South Wales) Police, and remanded to Victoria —O. 76/1228.—12th August, 1881.