Extract from Western Australia Police Gazette.

New Zealand Police Gazette, Volume VI, Issue 12, 14 June 1882, Page 95

Extract from Western Australia Police Gazette.

(From Police Gazette, 1882, page 74.)

A warrant was issued on the 22nd March, 1882, by U. T. A. Murray, Esq., Police Magistrate, Launceston, for the undermentioned offender: William Tyson, jun., on the charge of having, on or about the Bth March, at Launceston, stolen £SOO of the moneys of Adye Douglas and others, shareholders in the Bank of Tasmania, of which bank the said Tyson was then the teller. Description : Age forty, 5 feet 8 or 9 inches high, stoops

slightly, brown hair and worn rather long, dark-brown whiskers dyed black, long beard, fair complexion, good forehead, good white teeth, small features, has a slight hesitation in speech, and habit of rubbing his hands over one another. When last seen had with him a swag, was dressed in black alpaca coat, white vest, black trousers, and soft black-felt hat; carried a case of surgical instruments ; had a travelling-bag. Tyson had been a very fervid Rcchabite and Good Templar; has a slight knowledge of electricity, and likes to talk about it.