Extracts from Victoria Police Gazette.

New Zealand Police Gazette, Volume VIII, Issue 26, 24 December 1884, Page 220

Extracts from Victoria Police Gazette.

(From Gazette, 1884, pages 313, 321, and 329.)

Henry Frederick Metz is charged on warrant with stealing the property described hereafter from Charles Johnston, 134, Gertrude Street, Fitzroy, on the 25tli ultimo. Description : An English Jew, twenty-eight years of age, 5 feet 5 or 6 inches high, slender, dark complexion, dark moustache and “ side-boards,” large nose, dresses well; appearance of a sporting man. May have gone to Sydney, as he is said to have a brother in the telegraph office there. Offender obtained the following on time-payment, and sold them at Beauchamp’s auction-rooms, Collins Street, Melbourne: Six liair-clotli chairs, moulded backs; a Vienna rockingchair, a cedar table, 6by 4 feet, on castors; two carpet fold-ing-chairs, a bronze fender, 10 yards linoleum, 2 yards wide; a table-cover, 8£ yards linoleum, 1 yard wide; four small door-mats. All the goods, except the table-cover, bear the number 6416 and C. J.—o. 6778, 17th November, 1884.

(See Police Gazette, 1884, page 313.)

Henry Metz, larceny from Charles Johnston: Some of the furniture was sold on the 4th instant, and on the sth instant offender received an advance-note for £25 on the portion unsold. Offender was seen in Melbourne on the 10th instant. It is said he served a term of imprisonment for forgery in New Zealand, where he has a brother. —O. 6678, 22nd November, 1844.

(See Police Gazette, 1884, page 321.)

Henry Metz, larceny from Charles Johnston: Photographs of offender and his wife are in the police offices of Melbourne, Sydney, Adelaide, Launceston, Hobart, Brisbane, and Wellington, New Zealand.—O. 6778, 2nd December, 1884.