Offences Not Otherwise Described.

New Zealand Police Gazette, Volume VIII, Issue 4, 20 February 1884, Page 27

Offences Not Otherwise Described.

William Charles Macdermott is charged, on warrant issued by the Wellington Bench, with having, on the 16th April last, at Wellington, while employed as a Clerk in the Government Insurance Office, embezzled the sum of £4O, the moneys of Her Majesty the Queen. Description: A native of Victoria, a clerk, about twenty-eight years of age, 5 feet 8 or 9 inches high, medium build, fair freckled complexion, large blue eyes, fair hair, reddish beard whiskers and moustache of about six months’ growth, gentlemanly appearance and good address, quiet manner, fond of fast company. Ho was seen in Wellington on the 9th instant. Photograph of offender at the Police Offices, Dunedin, Christchurch, and Auckland.

Two Union Bank of Australia £1 notes, forged by altering the figure 1 and the word one to five, so as to represent £5 notes, were uttered to John Peterson, grocer, George Street, Dunedin, and to Elizabeth Scott, publican, King Street, Dunedin, on the 2nd and 3rd instant, by a boy, who is described as about thirteen years of age, medium build, round freckled face ; wore light-tweed suit, grey-tweed hat, and black-cloth band on left arm. Identifiable. He purchased a shilling’s worth of whiskey from Mrs. Scott, and in payment tendered the forged note, when the forgery was detected. He said he received the note from a man in the street, who sent him for the whiskey. He left the hotel on the pretence of looking for the man, but he did not return. Mrs. Scott retained possession of the forged note.

A £1 note on the National Bank of New Zealand, forged by altering the figure 1 and the word one, so as to represent a £5 note, was uttered on the 2nd instant to Thomas Stanton

Dixon, grocer, Dundas and Cumberland Streets, Dunedin, by a boy, who is described as between fourteen and sixteen years of age, supposed dark complexion and hair, round freckled face ; dressed in black-cloth jacket and soft blackfelt hat.

William Soppett is charged, on warrant issued by the Christchurch Bench, with uttering a cheque for £ll 4s. to Joseph Bridges, at . Christchurch, on the 12th ultimo. Description : English, a miller, forty-six years of age, 5 feet 10 inches high, medium build, fair complexion, grey hair, light-grey eyes, large prominent nose, small mouth, ruptured, bald. The cheque was drawn on the Colonial Bank, Christchurch, and purported to bo signed by Samuel Early. Ho was sentenced at Christchurch on the 10th July, 1882, to nine months’ labour for forgery and uttering. Vide Police Gazette 1883, page 44.

(See Police Gazette, 1884, page 15.) Obtaining money from Margaret Oaten by false representations : William Pearce, alias William Frederick Carroll, has been arrested for this offence by Constable Edwin Martin, Dunedin Police, and sentenced to six weeks’ labour.

On the 26th or 27th ultimo a hive of bees was taken from the garden of Daniel Phillips, East Road, near Invercargill, and maliciously thrown on the road, and fourteen flowerplants and some potato-stalks were maliciously pulled out of the ground.

About the 9th instant a copper token, silvered so as to represent a two-shilling piece, was uttered to John Porteous, in the grocer’s shop of John Peterson, George Street, Dunedin, by a person at present unknown.

(See Police Gazette, 1884, pages 15 and 16.) Thomas Brennan, charged on warrant with embezzling money belonging to the Onehunga Racing Club, is a native of Auckland.

(See Police Gazette, 1884, page 15.) John Margetts, charged on warrant with obtaining money from Joseph Caffrey by false representations, has been arrested by Constable William Campbell, Wellington Police, and remanded to Auckland.