Stealing Otherwise than from the Person or from Dwellings.

New Zealand Police Gazette, Volume V, Issue 25, 14 December 1881, Page 208

Stealing Otherwise than from the Person or from Dwellings.

Edward Trenwith, alias Donovan, is charged, on warrant issued by the Invercargill Bench, with the larceny as a bailee, at Invercargill, on the 29ll» ultimo, of a paget-coat, value £2, since recovered ; the property of John Patterson. Description: Irish, a clerk, forty-four years of age, 5 feet inches high, stout build, round florid features, dark-brown hair, beard, whiskers, and moustache, mixed with grey ; dressed in darktweed suit, considerably worn, and round black bat. He travels through the country selling composition for cleaning clothes and furniture. (See Police Gazette, 1881, page 77.)

Stolen on tho 20th ultimo, from a cart in Lome Street, Auckland, a dark-grey waterproof coat; tho property of Richard O’Callaghan; value £2 10s. Identifiable.

Stolen on the 24th ultimo, from St. George’s Bay Road, Auckland, a black-and-white hen and eight black chickens ; the property of William Flood. Hen identifiable.

Stolen on the 22nd or 23rd ultimo, from the yard of A. Hammond, Parnell, Auckland, a brown-and-speckled hen and

eleven young ducks, some yellow, others black and yellow; value Bs. Hen identifiable.

Stolen on the 26fch ultimo, from the yard of the Rev. William Lebbs, Wellesley Street, Auckland, six ducks, principally Aylesbury and raven breed, one Indian breed, and six hens. Identifiable.

Stolen, supposed between the 29th ultimo and 3rd instant, from the Museum, Christchurch, a gold quarter-guinea of G-eorge 1., dated 1718; a Canadian silver 50-cent piece of Victoria, dated 1872 ; a silver rupee of Victoria, dated 1562 ; a silver half-rupee of Victoria, East India Company, dated 1840; a silver florin of Victoria without the usual D.G. on it, brighter colour than the other coins, dated 1849 ; a Herman gold five-mark piece, dated 1877; and a two-krooner Danish silver coin, reign of Christian IX., dated 1875 ; the property of Dr. Julius Vou Ilaast. All identifiable by a peculiar blue tarnish on them.

Stolen on the 19th ultimo, at Morningside, Auckland, a bundle of clothes, consisting of the following: Four white shirts, five chemises (three large aud two small), a night-dress, seven linen collars, two ladies’ ties, a sheet, a bolster-case, four pairs of girls’ drawers, a muslin pinafore, two aprons, a flannel shirt, a small white petticoat, a boys’ coloured-cloth jacket, a toilet cover, two small dresses, a pair of ladies’ drawers, and a bed valance ; the property of Mary Mcßride. Identifiable.

Stolen between the Ist September last and 21st ultimo, from a new building in Hepburn Street, Auckland, 1,000 feet of tongued-aud-grooved timber; the property of Thomas Maunders ; value £7.

Stolen between tbe Bth and 10th ultimo, from the yard of Thomas Armstrong, Colombo Street, Christchurch, four rough brown-holland aprons', plain pattern, aud an old axe ; value 9s. fid. Identifiable.

(See Police Gazette, 1881, page 202.) The youth charged with stealing an overcoat, at Dunedin, the property of John McLauchlan, has been arrested by Constable Power, Dunedin Police, and sentenced to fourteen days’ labour. His name is Philip Grantloy, alias De Costa.

Stolen on the 25th ultimo, from the cart of Alexander Hindman, Manchester Street, Christchurch, a carters’ whip, 4 feet long, with silver ferrules and kangaroo thong; value 10s. Identifiable.

Stolen on the 12th ultimo, from the shed of John O’Brien, at Winton Plain, Southland, a chaff-cutter belt, about 33 or 34 feet long, 5 inches wide, made of canvas covered with indiarubber, 44 feet of new leather fasteued to belt with copper nails or rivets ; value <24. Identifiable. Swagsmen suspected.

Stolen between tbe Ist August last and the Bth ultimo, from goods cases on board the ship “Pleione,” between London and Wellington, four sets [of table knives with black handles fastened with three pins, wrapped in brown paper marked 355 ; two sets of table knives of similar pattern, wrapped in brown paper marked 582; three sets of knives of same pattern, handles fastened with five pins, wrapped in paper marked 329 ; six dozen table knives with bone bandies, four dozen dessert knives, six table steels, and six pairs of carvers, all wrapped in paper marked 676; three pairs of carvers with stag handles, wrapped in paper marked 638; and 40 feet of 4-inch soleleather machinery-belting; the property of John Duthy and Co.; value £l4 10s. Suspicion attached to the crew of the ship.

Stolen during the night of the 10th October last, from the bakehouse of Ann Robertson, at Ohinemutu, a wrought-iron oven door, 2 feet by 18 inches, considerably worn. Identifiable.

Stolen between the Ist October last and the loth ultimo, from the mining claim of Charles Jewett, at Round Hill, near Orepuki, about 5 or 6 ounces of gold; value about £23. A Chinaman named All Wai suspected.

Stolen on the 14th or 15th ultimo, from the verandah of the store of Barclay and Galbraith, at Te Puke, Auckland, a case containing forty-eight tins of condensed milk, milkmaid brand, case marked B. and G., Te Puke, R.A.M.A., cross under the word chain ; value £2 Bs. Case identifiable.

Stolen between the 11th and 14th ultimo, at the Theatre Royal, or the Theatre Royal Hotel, Wellington, or on board the steamer “ Rotomahana,” between Wellington and Napier, from the porte-monnaie of Jessie Gray, two ladies’ gold dress rings, half-hoop pattern, one set with two rubies with thi’ee

diamonds in centre, the other set with two emeralds with two diamonds in centre, and place for another diamond ; value £lO. Identifiable.

Stolen on the 30th ultimo, from off a horse at Orari, Canterbury, a colonial-made pig-skin saddle, large knee-pads, cracked at rivet above one of knee-pads, crupper D covered with leather, blue web girth, white web surcingle with red stripes, steel stirrup-irons, a hole punched in one of stirrupleathers betweeu the original holes; the property of R. H. Pearpoiut; value £4. Identifiable. Suspicion attached to Albert Hoskins. (For his description, &c., see Police Gazette, 1881, page 121.)

Stolen on the 18th of October last, on board the mail steamer “Australia,” at San Francisco, a double-cased silver lever watch, makers T. A. Proctor and Co., Christchurch ; the property of William RusselL Morris; value £lO 10s. Identifiable. Also a double-cased silver lever watch, maker Peter Adair, Dunedin, No. 25227, DK conjoined engraved on ease, and a sovereign; the property of David Robert Cowan. Watch identifiable.

Lost or stolen about the 14th ultimo, from a railway-van, between Dunedin and Invercargill, a medium-sized carpet-bag, containing a light-coloured print dress, a bank-book, a chequebook, several letters, and some bills; the property of a Mrs. Pillau.

Stolen on the Ist instant, from the cart of John Brown, in Manchester Street, Christchurch, a carters’ whip, American make, about 4 feet long, brass ferrules and American thong; value 10s. identifiable.

Stolen during the night of the 21st ultimo, from the goldmining claim of Hock Young and party, Main Gully, Naseby, gold, value about £ls, and a long-handle shovel, value 4s. 6d.; shovel identifiable; a hose, value £5 173. 6d., was maliciously destroyed.

(See Police Gazette, 1881, page 203.) The tweed overcoat, &c., and the mackintosh, the property of James Barron and Peter Wilson, reported stolen from a truck at the Dunedin Railway Station, have been recovered.

Stolen on the 2Sth or 29th ultimo, from the yard of Thomas Allen, Albert Street, Greymouth, four ducks, two black, one black and white, the other white ; value 12s. Identifiable.

Stolen on the 26th or 27tli ultimo, from off a horse, at Ormond, a medium-sized saddle, large knee-pads, place for surcingle cut in flaps, two girth straps on one side, one on the other side, stirrup-leathers spliced, oval irons ; the property of Thomas Carron ; value £3 6s. Identifiable.

Stolen on the 30th ultimo or Ist instant, from Tory Street, Wellington, two grey Rouen ducks; the property of William 11. Pascoe; value £1 10s. Identifiable.