Offences Not Otherwise Described.

New Zealand Police Gazette, Volume VII, Issue 13, 27 June 1883, Page 109

Offences Not Otherwise Described.

William Rowan is charged, on warrant issued by the Wellington Bench, with having, on the Bth February last, at Wellington, obtained 5 tons of fencing wire and five kegs of wire staples, value £Bl 10s., from Messrs. E. W. Mills and Co., by false pretences. Description: Supposed to be a native of England or Adelaide, said he was a sheepfarmer, which he looked like, about thirty-two years of age, about 5 feet 9 or 10 inches high, medium build, fresh complexion, brown hair and whiskers. He said he was a sheepfarmer from Adelaide. He falsely represented that he had a sheep-farm at Masterton, to which place the wire and staples were forwarded to him, and where he subsequently sold them for £6B Bs. 2d. He gave a cheque for £25 on the Bank of New South Wales, Wellington, in part payment for the wire and staples, and gave a three months’ bill for the balance; the cheque was honoured, but the bill was dishonoured. He subsequently obtained a similar quantity of wire and staples from Messrs. Duthie and Co., at Wellington, saying that he had a sheep-farm at Napier, to which place the wire and staples were forwarded by the steamer “Kiwi” on the 19th February last.

(See Police Gazette , 1883, pages 83, 91, and 102.)

William Dale, charged with absconding from his bail: A warrant has been issued by the Patea Bench for his arrest, under eection 171 of “The Justices of the Peace Act, 1882.”

Patrick Riordan is charged, on warrant issued in Victoria, with felony under the Insolvency Statute. Description: A grocer, twenty-eight years of age, 5 feet 7 or 8 inches high, dark complexion, downcast look, black hair parted in centre, small fringe, small moustache only ; quiet manner, but associates with sporting and boxing men. He has with him a new fawn-coloured horse-rug, with dark-green and red stripes, and a black valise with leather straps. He is believed to have left Melbourne on the 26th ultimo for Sydney by the steamer “Nemesis,” under the name of J. H. Squire, and will likely make for America via Auckland, or take passage at Newcastle, Brisbane, or Adelaide.

(See Police Gazette, 1883, page 101.)

Uttering forged cheques to Oscar George Augustus Harvey and Stewart H. Manson : Suspicion is now attached to William Rex Rose, described in Police Gazette, 1880, page 94, and 1883, page 16. He was seen in Wanganui about the date the offences were committed, and his handwriting has been compared by an expert with the writing in the forged cheques and pronounced to be the same. lie is believed to be identical with the man who left Wanganui on the 19th ultimo by the steamer “Tui” for Wellington. He was sentenced at Wanganui on the 28th October, 1878, to two years’ labour for forgery, and at New Plymouth on the 12th July, 1881, to two years’ labour for larceny. He was discharged from New Plymouth Gaol in January last, and weut from Patea to Wanganui.

Fairfield Thompson, of Fielding, reports that, on the 4th or sth instant, two horses, his property, were maliciously wounded in four places, supposed with a knife or sharp instrument. The police are of opinion that the wounds were accidentally caused by the horses running against fallen timber, a large quantity of which is in the paddock in which they were grazing.

At 9.30 p.m. on the 7th instant a window was maliciously broken in the dwelling of Patrick Fitzpatrick, Macandrew Road, South Dunedin.

Between 6 p.m. on the 13th and 8 a.m. on the 14th instant a pane of plate-glass, 6 feet 8 inches by 2 feet 9 inches, value £7 10s., was maliciously broken in the shop-window of Messrs. Hassell and Co., Lambton Quay, Wellington.

Between the 9th and 11th instant, at the Floating Dock, Dunedin, one of the screws of the boiler man-hole in the engine-room, the property of Robert B. Mason, was maliciously broken, thereby damaging the boiler to the extent of about 10s.

William Whiley is charged, on warrant issued at Adelaide, with having, on the 31st ultimo, obtained £2O from Henry Fuller, Mayor of Adelaide, by false pretences. Description: About forty years of age, 5 feet 8 or 9 inches high, slight build, fair complexion, eyes close together, right thumb misshapen; wore blue-serge shirt and drab bell-topper hat. He is supposed to have left Adelaide about the 6th instant, accompanied by his wife and four children—three girls, aged respectively three, thirteen, and sixteen years, and a boy six years of age. His wife is about forty-five years of age, stout build, fond of drink*

A piece of paper was found in his house with the following address written thereon: “ Mr. J. Parish, Woodbine Farm, Halswell, Canterbury.” He is a defaulter to a large amount, and his arrest is most important.