Extracts from Victoria Police Gazette.

New Zealand Police Gazette, Volume VI, Issue 15, 26 July 1882, Page 119

Extracts from Victoria Police Gazette.

(From Gazette, 1882, pages 153 and 159.) (See Government Gazette, 19th May, 1882, page 1138.) Murder near Deep Lead.—Twenty Pounds Reward.— Whereas on Monday, the 17th day of January last, the dead body of a man without a particle of clothing was found in the bush, a few miles from Deep Lead: And whereas the head was severed from the body, and has not yet been discovered : Notice is hereby given that a reward of twenty pounds will be paid by the Government for the discovery of the head of the murdered man, or for such information as will lead thereto.— J. M. Grant, Chief Secretary. —Chief Secretary’s Office, Melbourne, 18th May, 1882.

(See Government Gazette, 26th May, 1882, page 1167.) Notice. Murder near Deep Lead, Victoria. —On the 17th January, 1882, the headless body of a man was found near the Deep Lead Railway-station, Stawell, and at an inquest held subsequently it was shown that the man had been wilfully murdered. The remains are believed to be those of one Charles Forbes or Forbys, who worked on the Dimboola line of railway during the months of October, November, and December, 1881, with a man named Robert Francis Burns. The said Robert Francis Burns has since been arrested, and committed for trial at the Central Criminal Court to be held at Melbourne on the 15th August, 1882, for the murder of Charles Forbes or Forbys ; but, as the prisoner alleges that Forbes is still alive, it is requested that the said Charles Forbes or Forbys, if living, or any person acquainted with him, or able to give information about him since the date of his disappearance, should at once communicate with the Chief Commissioner of Police, Melbourne. Description of the missing man, Charles Forbes, is as follows : About forty years of age, 5 feet 10£ or 11 inches high, 14 stone weight, full sandy beard, and hair a shade darker. Supposed to be a native of the North of Ireland. —J. M. Grant, Chief Secretary.—Chief Secretary’s Office, Melbourne, May, 1882.

(See Police Gazette, 1882, pages 153 and 154, and ante.) Deep Lead Murder. —The photograph of the supposed murdered man has been identified by a Mr. Whitaker, contractor, Coleraine, who states that Charles Forbes was in his employment a long time, and left about three years ago for Narracoorte, South Australia, in company with two men named Christy Joyce and Kerry Jack. Forbes was better known about Coleraine as “Blathering Charlie,” and had a large scar on the upper lip, supposed right side. Nothing has been seen of him since he left Mr. Whitaker’s. Kerry Jack had a set of false teeth. —O. 582.—5th June, 1882.

(From Gazette, 1882, page 194.) (See New Zealand Police Gazette, 1882, page 111.) Joseph Ayinski’s Robbery. William Rowe, Michael McNamara, and Alfred Roberts, alias Walter Steadman, alias Thomas Brown, alias Angus Gorwick, have been arrested by the Melbourne Detective Police. The jewellery has been broken up, and 15 diamonds and 28 ounces of gold have been traced to the possession of the prisoners.—O. 3685. —11th July, 1882.