Offences Not Otherwise Described.

New Zealand Police Gazette, Volume IX, Issue 1, 7 January 1885, Page 2

Offences Not Otherwise Described.

Charles James Holmes is charged, on warrant issued by the Rangiora Bench, with having, on the 15th November last, at Rangiora, obtained £1 from Lawson Ridley by false representations. Description : English, a cab-drivcr or shearer, twenty-six years of age, 5 feet 6 inches high, about 11 stono weight, dark complexion, supposed clean-shaved ; wore a dark coat, groy-tweed trousers, light-coloured hat, light boots; respectable appearance. Recently drove a cab for a Mr. Shepherd, Ferry Road, Christchurch. Identifiable. Supposed gone to Mount Parnassus Station, to seek employment as a shearer.

Jeremiah Harnett, alias O’Connor, is charged on warrant of commitment to Lawrence Gaol for fourteen days’ labour, in default of paying a fine of £1 and costs £llos., for travelling in a railway carriage, at Balclutha, on the Bth ultimo, without paying his fare. Description: Irish, thirty-five years of age, 5 feet 8 inches high, medium build, black hair, dark beard whiskers and moustache; dirty slovenly appearance ; addicted to drink.

(See Police. Gazette , 1884, page 200.)

The warrant issued by the Tc Awamutu Bench for the arrest of W. Mursell, for obtaining £2 10s. from James Devin by false pretences, has been cancelled.

On the night of the 21st ultimo, in a paddock attached to the White Hart Hotel, Carterton, the mane and hair of the tail were maliciously cut off a horse, the property of WaiterBishop.

Between 5 p.m. on the 24th and 7 a.m. on the 25th ultimo, at Kaiapoi, a pair of leather cart-traces, the property of John Sims, were maliciously cut; amount of damage 10s.

Between 12.15 and 2 a.m. on the Ist instant a pano of glass in the window of G. E. Lcvien’s hair-dressing saloon, Willis Street, Wellington, was maliciously broken; value £2 10s.

Walter Edwards is charged with having obtained a pair of boots, value £l, and £9 in bank notes from Mrs. Mary Hitchell, at Glentunnel, on the 30th ultimo, by means of a valueless cheque for £lO, drawn on the Bank of New Zealand, Christchurch. Description: Supposed English, but looks like a German or Swede, a carpenter, thirty years of age, about 5 feet 9 inches high, medium build, fair complexion, blue sunken eyes, fair hair, sandy beard whiskers and moustache; wore blue-cloth coat and vest, and tweed trousers and hat; respectable appearance ; is fond of music and dancing, and can play a little on the comet. He had been lately employed at Waireka Station, Coalgate. He left Glentunnel on the 30tli ultimo by train for Christchurch, and had in his possesion a white bag. Warrant to issue.

(See Police Gazette, 1884, page 199.)

John Hampton, alias Munroe, charged on warrant with having uttered a forged cheque to Joseph Oram Shepherd, has been arrested by Constable Will Willoughby, Geraldine Police, remanded to Christchurch, and committed for trial.

(See Police Gazette, 1884, page 211.)

Damaging the Salvation Army Barracks at Oamaru: Walter Underwood, Norris Gibbs, and Patrick Slines wore summoned for this offonco, but the charge against them was withdrawn on their agreeing to pay the amount of damage and the costs incurred.

On the morning of the 6th ultimo two panes of glass, value 55., the property of the Government, were maliciously broken in a window of the police-station at Wyndham.

Roland S. Waterhouse is charged, on warrant issued by the Wellington Bench, with the larceny as a bailee, on the 16th ultimo, at Wellington, of two warrants or warehousekeepers’ certificates or orders for the delivery of seventy cases and a quarter-cask of whiskey; the property of Alexander Macdougall. Description: English, a merchant, about twenty-eight years of ago, 5 feet 7 inches high, medium build, erect gait, active appearance, fresh complexion, darkbrown hair, auburn whiskers and moustache, chin shaved ; usually wears tweed suit and small hard black hat. He

was in business as a merchant in Wellington. He sold his business and absconded about the 29th ultimo. Two other warrants have been issued, also by the Wellington Bench, charging him with fraudulent conversion of the same property.