Housebreaking, Stealing from the Person and from Dwellings.

New Zealand Police Gazette, Volume VII, Issue 1, 10 January 1883, Page 2

Housebreaking, Stealing from the Person and from Dwellings.

About 10 p.m. on the 25th ultimo a pane of glass was broken in the shop-window of Waldamer Wilhelmenson, Stuart Street, Dunedin, and the following stolen: Two pairs of ladies’ fancy leather boots, with black soles, No. 5 size, value 10s. each; and a pair of men’s shoes, with square toes, No. 10 size, value £l. Shoes identifiable. Suspicion attached to a woman, name unknown, who was seen running away from the shop-window. Description : About thirty years of age, 5 feet 2 inches high ; wore a grey shawl round her head.

Between the 23rd and 27th ultimo the boot-factory of Sargood, Son, and Ewing, Cumberland Street, Dunedin, was broken into, and a £1 note, a half-sovereign, and £1 Is. lOd. in •silver stolen.

Stolen on the 20th ultimo, from a bedroom in the Royal Hotel, Palmerston North, 16s. in silver; the property of Charles alias William Sewell. Suspicion attached to Robert Harris, alias Harrison, who occupied the room with Sewell. (For his description, &c., see Police Gazette, 1882, page 113.) He left Palmerston on the 22nd ultimo for Wellington.

Stolen on the 28th ultimo, from the dwelling of John Barclay, Athol Place, Dunedin, a pair of gold earrings, long pattern, value 155.; two ladies’ gold rings—one a keeper with MOB thereon, the other with two blue, two white, and two red stones, value £2 155.; and a plain round silver brooch, value 10s. Identifiable.

On the morning of the 28th ultimo the store of Constance Ballam, at Waverley, was broken into, and the following stolen: Two dozen pint bottles of brandy, two dozen pint bottles of English ale, and three bottles of old tom ; value £4 12s. 6d. Brandy identifiable.

During the night of the 27th or morning of the 28th ultimo an attempt was made to break into the store of Myer Caselberg, at Masterton.

(See Police Gazette, 1882, page 197.)

The watch stolen from the person of Samuel Rowe, in the Dewdrop Hotel, Raiteratahi, Poverty Bay, is an open-faced silver lever.

On the 27th or 28th ultimo the office of Frank Henry Alsbury, Castle Street, Dunedin, was broken into, and a brown japanned cash-box, 10 inches by 5 inches, containing 150 Macetown Comstock mining shares, stolen. Identifiable.

On the 13th or 14th ultimo the store of William Callaghan, Hukanui Gum Fields, Auckland, was broken into, and four tins of preserved meat, branded “ James Gear, Wellington,” four tins of jam, and about 10 lb. of sugar, value 155., stolen.

Stolen on the 28th November last, from the person of George Cameron, at Four-Mile Creek, near Balclutha, an openfaced gold lever watch, maker Ganthony, London, No. 3428, a long silver chain attached ; value £3O. Identifiable. Suspicion attached to a swagman, name unknown, Irish, looked like a station-cook, about forty years of age, about 5 feet 6 inches high, dark complexion, small dark whiskers ; wore dark suit.

Stolen on the 29th ultimo, from the Adelaide Hotel, Hanover Street, Dunedin, a pair of gold-mounted spectacles; the property of Margaret Fenwick; value £2 10s. Identifiable. Suspicion attached to a woman, name unknown, about forty years of age, about 5 feet high, medium build, dark complexion, no front teeth ; dressed in black. She said that she lived at Green Island.

About the 28th ultimo the whare of Rodgers and Carnell, at Masterton was broken into, and the following stolen: A brown pocketbook with one compartment, a red-silk book-mark, five gold-plated studs, a pair of merino socks, a pair of worsted socks, a volume of “ Trafalgar Bay,” two packets of envelopes, a leather Btrap, and 3s. in silver ; value 14s. 9d. Identifiable, except money and strap.

Stolen on the 23rd ultimo, from off the counter of Henry Watts’s store, Grey Street, Auckland, a brown-leather pocketbook, containing a £1 note, a half-sovereign, 7s. 6d. in silver, a gentlemen’s scarf-ring, value £1 ; a piece of greenstone, value 10s.; and a gold locket, value 10s.; the property of Mrs. Mary Hill. Identifiable, except money. Suspicion attached to a lad, name unknown, who was in the shop, and left when the money was missed.

On the 23rd or 24th ultimo the office of George Tisdale Upper Pitt Street, Auckland, was broken into, and the following stolen: An open-faced three-quarter-plate gold English lever watch, No. 280, maker’s name not known, figure of a lion on back of case, large centre second-hand, value £25 ; a pair of ladies’ scarlet-and-white stockings, and a quantity of oats, value 38. Watch identifiable.

Stolen between the 30th ultimo and 2nd instant, from a bedroom in the Glasgow Piehouse, Princes Street, Dunedin, a large white indiarubber macintosh, “ R. Herbert ” written with ink on inside near collar, five bone buttons, a small outside left-breast pocket; the property of Richard Herbert; value £1 7s. 6d. Identifiable.

Stolen on the Ist instant, from the Royal Hotel, Oamaru, a black-worsted tweed overcoat, in the pockets of which were a letter addressed to John Frazer, and a mounted.briar-root pipe,

with “W. Shirraea” cut on stem; the property of William Shirraes ; value £3. Identifiable.

Stolen about the 29th ultimo, from the billiard-room of the Club Hotel, Waimate, three billiard-balls, one red, one spot, and one white; the red ball is slightly mottled, as the red is nearly all worn off; the spot ball is a little rough in some places, and it or the white ball has a very small chip off; the property of Henry Middleton; value £3 3s. Identifiable. Suspicion attached to William Henry Pearson, English, a coachbuilder, forty-two years of age, 5 feet 8£ inches high, fresh complexion, dark hair, blue eyes, large nose, some fresh scratches on nose; dressed in old brown coat, no vest, dirty white-moleskin trousers, a light billycock hat with a leather strap round it. (See Police Gazette, 1881, page 206.) He left Waimate on the 30th ultimo by train for Oamaru or Timaru, and had then three billiard-balls in his possession.