Stealing Otherwise than from the Person or from Dwellings.

New Zealand Police Gazette, Volume IX, Issue 5, 4 March 1885, Page 36

Stealing Otherwise than from the Person or from Dwellings.

Frederick Godfrey is charged, on warrant issued by the Invercargill Bench, with the larceny as a bailee, on the 16th ultimo, at Invercargill, of a bakers’ basket and a quantity of confectionery; the property of Andrew Francis Gallagher; value £2. Basket identifiable. Description: A native of London, about twenty-four years of age, 5 feet 5 or G inches high, medium build, fair complexion, inclined to be sandy, very little hair on face, round-shouldered, slightly lame; wore dark-tweed coat and trousers, no vest, black hard felt hat with bucklo at back, blue braces with white stripes, and heavy boots. He was employed by the complainant hawking confectionery. He is supposed to have gone to Dunedin.

Stolen on the 11th or 12th ultimo, from the clothes-line of Hans Larsen, at Westport, a nearly-new white-flannel shirt, a nearly-new pair of white-ribbed woollen drawers, and an old brown- and white-striped bed-rug; value £1 ss. Identifiable.

Stolen between the Ist and 7th January last, at Pihautea, near Featherston, a large black opera-glass in leather case, with shoulder-strap; the property of W. E. Bidwill, whose name is engraved in very small letters on one of cylinders; value £lO. Identifiable. Suspicion attached to a man, named Burleigh, who is in complainant’s employment. Description: Supposed English, a station-hand and sailor, about twenty-five years of age, 5 feet 2 or 3 inches high, medium build, very sallow complexion; usually wears dark-serge suit.

Stolen between the sth and 14th ultimo, from out of a boat at Freeman’s Bay, near Auckland, about 3 cwt. of pigiron, consisting of eleven pieces from 6 inches to 24 inches long, one piece about 2 feet long has very square edges, and is wider at one end than at the other; the property of H. R. Munro ; value £1 10s. The piece described identifiable.

Stolen between the 9th and 12th ultimo, from a shed in Forth Street, Dunedin, an old wooden bedstead, an old straw mattress, two pillows, a chair, two stools, a small tub, a shovel, two brooms, a billy-can, four brushes, three spoons, two forks, two cannisters containing tea and sugar, a bottle of salt, a bag containing three jackets, three dresses, two bodices, a pair of men’s drawers, a skirt, three window-blinds, two salt-cellars, two tea-cups, two tin cooking-dishes, and five or six old hammers, all very old; the property of Adam Gordon; value £l. Identifiable.

Stolen between the Gth and 13th ultimo, from off a threshing-machine at Ashburton, about 28 feet of the drivingbelt, 6 inches wide ; the property of Messrs. Friedlander Brothers ; value £1 10s. Identification doubtful.

Stolen on the 12th ultimo, at West Eyreton, Canterbury, a silver lever hunting-watch, maker Rotherham, No. 75G0, a steel albert chain, round-link pattern, attached; the property of Frederick Mamdonald; value £5. Identifiable.

Stolen between the 29th and 31st January last, from the railway station at Gordon, Southland District, a bag containing six smoked hams; the property of Alexander Brown; value £3 6s. 6d.

Stolen on the 9th ultimo, at Freeman’s Bay, Auckland, a gold hunting lever watch, maker Rotherham, London, No. 3105, value £7; and a gold albert guard, pattern large oblong links and small links alternately, value £5; the property of Jacob Gardener. Identifiable.

(See Police Gazette, 1885, page 3.)

The two screwjacks stolen from the Brunner Brick and Timber Company, Taylorville, near Brunnerton, have been recovered.

Stolen on the 16th or 17th ultimo, from a shed at Wanganui, a medium-sized imitation-pigskin saddle, plated stirrup-irons, “ Greatrex & Sons ” stamped on bottom of irons, two yellow-leather girths, and a dark-brown coloured single-rein snaffle-bridle with plated-nickle bit; the property of Arthur Harvey ; value £6 10s. Identifiable.

Stolen on the 12th January last, from a dressing-room at the City Baths, Customs Street, Auckland, an open-faced silver lever watch, maker Mercer, London, No. 14204, brass chain attached; the property of George Treadgold; value £5 ss. Identifiable.

Stolen about the 24th December last, from a goods case at Auckland, or between Auckland and Mercer, two pairs of shooting-boots with nails, value £1 ss. 6d.; two pairs of women’s elastic-side boots, value 18s.; a pair of girls’ boots with copper toes, value 55.; and two pairs of men’s fancy crewel-worked slippers, value £1 10s. 6d.; the property of the Northern Boot and Shoe Company. Slippers identifiable.

Stolen on the sth or 6th ultimo, from the gold-mining claim of Ly Chop, Roundhill, Southland, gold; value £2 or £3.

Stolen on the 20th ultimo, from on board the steamer “ Napier,” at the Port, Nelson, a pair of binocular glasses, about 7 inches long when slides are drawn to full extent; “ Presented to Captain Henry Fisk by the Ven. Archdeacon Butt, 1881,” engraved on one of the slides; the property of Henry Fisk; value £5 ss. Identifiable. The members of Woodyear’s Electric Circus Company were passengers by the steamer from Westport to Nelson, and it is supposed that the larceny was committed by one of them.

Stolen on the 11th or 12th ultimo, from the slaughteryard of Henry Ive, at Wyndham, two dressed carcases of mutton ; value £ll2s.