Offences Not Otherwise Described.

New Zealand Police Gazette, Volume V, Issue 24, 30 November 1881, Page 201

Offences Not Otherwise Described.

A MAN, name unknown, is charged with having indecently assaulted Mary Jane Batten and Elizabeth Goss, both under seven years old, on the Town Belt, near Mornington, Dunedin, at 4 p.m. on the 14th instant. Description : Small size, youuglooking, full round pale features, sandy whiskers ; dressed in navy-blue serge suit and black-felt hat. Identifiable. He went towards High Street, Dunedin.

(See Police Gazette, 1881, pages 159, 167, and 175.)

John Beattie, charged on warrant with assaulting and stabbing John Wilson, at Ettriek.—A man answering the offender’s description was seen on the 27th ultimo at Excelsior Creek, near Waiau River, going in the direction of the Nightcaps or Riverton. He carried a blue-blanket swag.

John Rattray is charged, on warrant issued by the District Court, Invercargill, with having committed a breach of “The Debtors and Creditors Act, 1876,’’ at Invercargill, on the 25th ultimo. Description : Scotch, a plumber, about thirty-four years of age, 5 feet 6£ inches high, stout square build, fair hair and complexion, light sandy beard, whiskers, and moustache; generally dressed in dark-tweed suit and soft black-felt hat. Ho left Invercargill by train about the 16th ultimo for Dunedin, accompanied by his daughter, aged five years. He formerly worked for Mr. Couston, tinsmith, Dunedin.

Robert George Warnes is charged, on warrant issued by the Dunedin Bench, with having committed a breach of “ The Fraudulent Debtors Act, 1876,” at Oarnaru, on the 9th instant.

Description : English, about twenty-eight years of age, 5 feet 5 inches high, slight build, dark eyes, pale complexion, thin features, brown hair, slight fair moustache, a few straggling hairs on face, small mouth, round-shouldered, bow-legged, turns his toes out when walking; wore dark-tweed suit, dark-tweed hat, and lace-up boots. He was formerly a draper and hawker, and recently a storekeeper. He purchased a quantity of goods from Messrs. Hogg, Howison, Nicol, and Co., of Dunedin, on credit, which he immediately afterwards sold for less than their value, and absconded, with a view of evading his creditors. He left the Bluff on the 19th instant by the steamer “ Arawata” for Melbourne.