Housebreaking, Stealing from the Person and from Dwellings.

New Zealand Police Gazette, Volume VIII, Issue 1, 9 January 1884, Page 2

Housebreaking, Stealing from the Person and from Dwellings.

Henrietta Hunter is charged, on warrant issued by the Dunedin Bench, with stealing eleven Colonial Bank £lO notes from the dwelling of William Shaw, at St. Kilda, near Dunedin, on the 22nd ultimo. Description: Supposed about thirty-three years of age, 5 feet 2 inches high, stout soft appearance, white soft face, hair inclined to be fair. She is fond of drink and is talkative. She is the wife of Richard Hunter, who lately kept the Railway Hotel, South Dunedin, and who is now supposed to be in Melbourne. She left Dunedin on the 31st ultimo, by train, for Christchurch. She may seek employment as a barmaid.

A man, who gave his name as Walters, is charged, on warrant issued by the Wellington Bench, with stealing, on the 93th ultimo, from the office of William Lockwood Hirst, at Kaiwarawara Tannery, near Wellington, an eight-day clock, since recovered; value £l. Description : Supposed English, a labourer, about forty years of age, 5 feet 8 inches high, medium build, dark brown beard whiskers and moustache, turning grey; wore dark sac - coat and dark - tweed hat. Identifiable. Ho pawned the clock at Isen’s Pawn Office, Cuba Street, about two and a half hours after it was stolen.

Stolen between the 15th ultimo and Ist instant, from the dwelling of Michael Rochford, Deborah Bay, Port Chalmers, a gold-mounted hair-guard with two small American coins attached, a small hole through one and a harp on one side of the other; value £l. Identifiable. Suspicion attached to William Woods, Irish, a labourer, nineteen years of age, 5 feet 3 or 4 inches high, medium build, fresh complexion, hazel eyes, fair hair, no hair on face.

Between 9 a.m. on the 25th and 9 a.m. on the 26th ultimo, the dwelling of John MeCandish, Ardlin Station, Hororata East, Canterbury, was broken into and the following stolen: A pair of dirty moleskin trousers, a blue cloth cap with flaps and two small tassels on front; a bone scarfring, heart pattern, with a coloured shell in centre; two lightgrey merino singlets, a large red-and-black woollen scarf, a set of gold-plated shirt-studs, a set of shirt-studs with coloured shell on front, a pair of turtle-shell sleeve-links, two fourpenny pieces, and a few pence in coppers; value, £1 10s. Studs, trousers, and scarf-ring identifiable.

Stolen between the 15th and 22nd ultimo, from a dwelling at Summerhill, Kaitangata, a double-barrel breechloading gun, maker’s name not known, a scratch on stock, a cleaning-rod in three pieces, and a brown leather case for gun, with “T. E. Sutton ” written thereon; the property of T. E. Sutton; value, £3O. Identifiable. Suspicion attached to Sarah Pryor, who resides with her husband at Kaitangata.

(See Police Gazette , 1883, page 196.) The dessert-spoons reported stolen from the hotel of Mrs Janet Miller, at Ross, have been recovered.

Stolen on the 31st ultimo or Ist instant, from the Robert Burns Hotel, Georgb Street, Dunedin, a yellowish-coloured dust overcoat, not much worn, four outside pockets and an inside pocket, about five or six rows of stitching on cuffs and collar; the property of Samuel Creighton; value, £3. Identifiable.

Stolen between the 4th and 7th instant, from the shop of Nicholas English, Willis Street, Wellington, a ladies’ workbox one foot square, value 10s. 6d., containing two halfsovereigns, £1 18s. 6d. in silver, and sundry papers. Identifiable except money.

Stolen on the 24th ultimo, from the person of Mrs* Thomas Logan, at the Railway-station, Dunedin, a mediumsized black morocco - leather purse, brass fastening -with AH L thereon; containing five £1 notes and 6s. in silver. Purse identifiable.

Stolen between the 24th and 27th ultimo, from the shop of James Gordon Hall, Stuart Street, Dunedin, a 1-lb. tin of orange colouring, a 1-lb. tin of rosin, and a 1-lb. tin of French-grey colouring; value £6. Identifiable.

Stolen on the 22nd or 23rd ultimo, from a bedroom in the Empire Hotel, Brown Street, Thames, nine £1 notes; the property of Alexander McLeod.

Stolen between the 16th and 23rd ultimo, from the dwelling of Charles Barry, Reynolds’s Right-of-way, off Dowling Street, Dunedin, a silver guard, small round-link pattern, rather wide spring; and a silver locket, with “ Silver ” stamped on outside ; value £1 ss. Identifiable.

Stolen on the 21st ultimo, from an hotel at Beck’s, Otago, an order for £2 4s. 6d., drawn by James Elliott on Messrs. Ross and Glendining, Dunedin, in favour of Charley McGrath or bearer; the order is headed No. 106, Lauder Station, and is dated the 21st ultimo; the property of Mrs. Ann Milward. Order identifiable.

Stolen during the night of the 22nd ultimo, from the person of James Sadler, while drunk and asleep in Mr. Craig’s stables, Rutland Street, Auckland, twenty £1 notes, and a pair of nearly-new elastic-side boots, value 15s. Money not identifiable. Identification of boots doubtful.

Stolen on the 26th ultimo, from the dwelling of Catherine Cameron, Hayes’ Lake, Arrowtown, a double-cased silver patent-lever watch, maker Stewart Dawson, Liverpool, No. 83148, value £3 10s.; and an open-faced silver geneva watch, main-spring broken, number and maker’s name not known, value £2 10s. Both identifiable.