Offences Not Otherwise Described.

New Zealand Police Gazette, Volume VII, Issue 14, 11 July 1883, Page 117

Offences Not Otherwise Described.

(See Police Gazette , 1883, pages 101 and 109.) Uttering forged cheques to Oscar George Augustus Harvey and Stewart H. Mnnson : William Dawson, recently sentenced at (he Supreme Court, Napier, to three years’ penal servitude on two charges of forging and uttering cheques, is believed to be identical with William Rex Rose. The writing on the cheques forged at Napier is exactly similar to the writing on those forged at Wanganui.

(See Police Gazette, 1883, page 101.) George llart, charged with having uttered a forged cheque to Thomas Prosser, has been arrested by Detective Edward Hughes, Auckland Police, and committed for trial on that charge and on five other similar charges. (See Police Gazette, 1883, pages 109 and 110.) William Whiley, charged on warrant with having obtained £2O from Henry Fuller, at Adelaide, by false pretences, is said to have come to this colony. His arrest is of the utmost importance.

On the 21st ultimo, at Gladstone, Southland, four windows, value about £4, were maliciously broken in the dwelling of Joseph Bray.

Henry Winter, known as the Indian Corn Doctor, is charged, on warrant issued at Melbourne, with having feloniously left Victoria on the 15th ultimo, lie being insolvent. Description : Forty to forty-five years of age, 5 feet 5 inches high, slender build, dark complexion, coarse black hair, slightly tinged with grey, heavy black moustache, looks and speaks like an American Jew ; generally wears black diagonal frock-coat, darktweed trousers and vest, and black bell-topper hat. He lately kept a grocer’s shop in Prahran. He may be accompanied by a woman about twenty-six years of age, tall and rather stout’, fair complexion ; wore long dark cloak with wide sleeves; lias a baby eight months old with her.

On the 3rd instant the barbed wire fence round the University Reserve, Albany Street, Dunedin, the property of the University Council, was maliciously cut in sixteen places, thereby damaging it to the extent of about 10s.