Deserters from Her Majesty’s Service.
Alfred W. Baker, Frederick Frost, and Alfred W. Uden are charged with deserting from Her Majesty’s ship “ Paluma,” at Brisbane, on the 31st May last. Description: Baker is a native of Maidstone, Kent, commander’s servant, twenty and a half years of age, 5 feet 7 inches high, fair complexion, brown hair, and hazel eyes, tattoo-marks on left arm. Frost is a native of Richmond, Surrey, an able-seaman, twenty-five years of age, 5 feet 5 inches high, fresh complexion, brown hair and eyes, clean-shaved, tattoo-marks on left arm. Uden is a native of Dover, Kent, an able-seaman, twenty-nine years of age, 5 feet G inches high, fair complexion, grey eyes, brown hair, and light whiskers and moustache. A reward of £3 each is offered for their arrest, in addition to £5 reward offered by the Colonial Government.
(See Police Gazette, 1883, page 150.) Thomas White, charged with deserting from Her Majesty’s ship “ Diamond,” has been arrested by the Sydney Police.
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New Zealand Police Gazette, Volume IX, Issue 14, 8 July 1885, Page 114
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