Extract from Victoria Police Gazette.

New Zealand Police Gazette, Volume IX, Issue 21, 14 October 1885, Page 180

Extract from Victoria Police Gazette.

(From Gazette, 1885, page 257.)

(See New Zealand Police Gazette , 1884, pages 176 and 177.) Murder, etc. —Murder of Maria Cook and her infant daughter near Edenhope : Information has been received by the Nhill Police that a man answering the description of Robert Cook was killing rabbits on the Avoca Run, Sturts, Bilabong, about twenty-two miles from Wentworth, New South Wales, about twelve months ago. The man in course of conversation said his name was Cook, and that his friends resided at Lawloit; that on coming over from Mount Gambier to Horsham in a trap his wife died, and that he subsequently sold the horse and trap at one of the mining centres. The name of the place cannot be remembered, but it is supposed to be Sandhurst. It is thought that the man referred to was known on the station as Murphy, not as Cook, and that he left Avoca Run for Piroo. Nothing was known on the station regarding the Horsham murders, as it is reported newspapers rarely reached the stations there. Robert Cook’s photograph has been shown to the person supplying the above information, and he identified it as that of the man who was rabbiting on the Avoca run. It is also said the man referred to was lame or stiff of one leg.—o. 4481, 14th September, 1885.

By Authority: George Didsbgby, Government Printer, Wellington.—lßßs.

Gaol. Name. Where Tried. When. Offence. Sentence. Native of Trade. Born. 3 jfl n Complexion. Hair. Eyes. Nose. Mouth. Chin. Remarks and PreviousConvictions. Lyttelton ... Joseph Louth ... Dunedin ... July 2, 1883 embezzlement ... 3 years’ penal Staffordclerk I848 ft.in. 5 8 fresh brown grey medium medium medium Right leg has been broken; walks lame; Lyttelton ... John Bradley Christchurch July 1, 1885 July 2, 1885 larceny tude 3 months’ labour ... shire Co. Derry labourer ... 1836 5 75 fair light brown blue small medium medium bald. One previous conviction. Lyttelton ... Adam Skinner Christchurch larceny 3 months’ labour ... Aberdeen labourer ... 1839 5 42 swarthy grey grey medium medium medium Left arm elaborately tattooed; ship on Lyttelton ... George McComb Amberley ... July 2, 1885 larceny 3 months’ labour ... County storeman... 1845 S 44 dark black grey medium medium medium right arm; bracelet on each wrist. Addington Joseph Loveday Kaiapoi Sept. 21, 1885 assault 7 days’ labour Gloucestershire Scotland ... labourer ... 1848 S 72 fresh brown It. blue medium medium medium Addington Thomas Stevenson ... Christchurch Sept. 22, 1885 obscene language ... 7 days’ labour labourer ... 1833 s 7 fresh dark It. blue large medium small TS on right forearm; scar on inside of Addington Robert Dunn Christchurch Sept. 23, 1885 exDosing his person, 7 days’ labour County horse- and 1848 5 84 fresh black grey crooked medium medium Scar over left eve; several scars on left &c. Tyrone cattleforearm. Addington Clara McDonald Christchurch Aug. 3, 1885 larceny ... 7 days’ labour ... London ... dealer i860 5 2 hazel medium medium One previous conviction. Addington John S. Donovan Christchurch Sept. 16, 1885 larceny 7 days’ labour Croydon, seaman and 1850 5 3i fresh light brown grey thin, medium medium Scar on left side of neck; mark of burn N.Plymouth John Crean N. Plymouth Sept. 10, 1885 malicious injury to 14 days’ labour on England England ... labourer labourer ... 1863 5 61 fair brown grey prominent medium medium medium on left forearm. Mark of boil on breast. property (2 charges) each charge (concurrent) in default of paying fines and N.Plymouth Patrick Crean N. Plymouth Sept. 10,1885 malicious injury to 14 days* labour on England ... labourer ... 1868 5 84 fair fair brown medium medium medium Mole on left cheek. property (2 charges) each charge (concurrent) in default of paying fines and Nelson ... Andrew Croudis Nelson June 27,1885 illegally on premises 3 months’ labour ... Ireland ... labourer ... 1820 5 8 fresh grey hazel large medium long Five previous convictions. Top of left middle finger injured; large birthNelson Neil M. Nelson Nelson Sept. 28, i8Ss ship-desertion 7 days’ labour Norway ... sailor 1863 s 74 fresh light brown blue crooked large round mark on outside of one of arms. Heart, anchor, and sword on left arm; Nelson Alexander Holmes ... Nelson Sept. 28,1885 ship-desertion 7 days’ labour England ... sailor 1866 s 43 fresh light brown brown short small round heart, cross, anchor, &c., on right arm. Two blue marks on left arm; scar on Wanganui Thomas O’Brien, alias Collins, alias Murphy, &c. Robert J. McNamara Marton Aug. 22,1885 obscene language ... 1 month’s labour ... Ireland ... labourer ... 1832 5 3 fair brown grey medium medium medium left shin. Nine previous convictions. Wanganui Otaki Aug. 22,1885 having no visible 1 month’s labour ... Born at sea butcher ... 1848 5 7 fresh dark brown blue large, medium large Seventeen previous convictions. Scar means of support broken on right eyebrow and third finger of Wanganui William Robertson ... Wanganui .. Sept. 8,1885 larceny and illegally 7 days’ labour on N. Zealand draper 1871 5 3 freckled brown hazel medium medium medium right hand; right little finger crooked. Mark of cut.on'.left middle finger. on premises each charge (cumulative ) fined £x, orin default Wanganui Annie Harris Wanganui... Sept. 28,1885 being the occupier of Africa prostitute 1846 S i4 copper black brown short large large Repeatedly convicted. A negress. Wanganui Mary Ann Ashton ... Wanganui.. Sept. 28,1885 a house of ill-fame being the occupier of 7 days labour fined £1, or in default England ... prostitute 1838 2 pale fair blue medium medium medium One previous conviction. Wanganui Alice Conrad, alias Wanganui ... Sept. 28,1883 a house of 111-fame being the occupier of 7 days’ labour fined iji.orin default N. Zealand prostitute 1862 S 4 fresh dark brown brown pug medium medium Two previous convictions. Two upper Napier Napier Dec. 1, 1884 a house of ill-fame 7 days labour Edward Perry larceny 12 months’ labour ... Mauritius sailor i860 s 6 dark black brown medium medium medium Female and ET on right arm; flags, Napier Napier Napier Hohna Parekowhai ... Gisborne ... April 16, 1883 larceny 6 months’ labour ... N. Zealand labourer ... i860 6 I copper black brown flat medium heart, and ST on left arm. One previous conviction. Napier Dec. 1, 1884 larceny 12 months’ labour ... Denmark 1859 5 c3 fair blue Thomas Dunn, alias Napier May 27, 1885 larceny 4 months’ labour ... Ireland ... labourer ... 1838 s 11 fresh dark, turnbrown medium medium medium Napier ... Thomas Carter Napier July 27,1885 larceny 2 months’ labour ... N. Zealand labourer ... 1857 5 8 dark bl^ grey ... brown medium medium medium A half-caste Maori. TC on left arm and Napier ... Dunedin ... Ehaka Tatare Napier July 20, 1883 larceny 2 months’ labour ... N. Zealand labourer .. 1864 s 6 copper brown fiat anchor on back of left hand. Robert Mahone Dunedin Mar. 24, 1885 attempted larceny ... 6 months’ labour ... Scotland... labourer ... 1835 S 11 fresh grey grey large medium medium hive previous convictions. Right leg Dunedin ... William Thomas Dunedin June 24, 1885 insufficient lawful 3 months’ labour ... Wales ... labourer ... 1830 s 9 fresh light brown blue large, medium small has been broken. One previous conviction. A tooth out Dunedin ... Theresa Poppleton .. Oamaru Aug. 15,1885 means of support insufficient lawful 6 weeks’ labour ... N. Zealand prostitute 1866 s 5 swarthy sandy grey hooked medium medium medium in front upper jaw. Three previous convictions. DB, anDunedin ... Robert Kirkwood Pt. Chalmers Sept. 14, 1S85 means of support insufficient lawful 14 days’ labour Ireland ... farmi860 s 81 fresh light brown grey medium medium medium chor, heart, and cross on right arm. Dunedin ... Ann Gummersall Dunedin Sept. 16, 1885 means of support obscene and indecent 14 days’ labour England ... labourer stewardess 1S40 s 4 fresh grey grey medium medium medium One previous conviction. Wart on right Dunedin ... Dunedin ... Eliza Harding Samuel Wilson Dunedin Pt. Chalmers July 3, 1885 Sept. 21, 1883 language habitual drunkenness 3 months’ labour ... Ireland ... prostitute 1848 5 2 fresh errey grey medium medium side of chin. Forty-three previous convictions. larceny 14 days’ labour England ... lumper ... 1843 s s fresh light brown grey medium medium medium Two previous convictions. I I eavy eyebrows; two small moles on right side of chin ; mole on right cheek near nose.

RETURN OF PRISONERS REPORTED AS DISCHARGED FROM GAOLS DURING THE FORTNIGHT ENDED 3rd OCTOBER, 1885.

Gaol. Name. Where Tried. When. Offence. Sentence. Native of Trade. Born. Height. Complexion. Hair. Eyes. Nose. Mouth. Chin. Remarks and Previous Convictions. Dunedin ... James Paris Pt. Chalmers Sept. 21, 1SS5 larceny 14 days’ labour England ... seaman ... 1852 ft. in. S 5 4 dark black black medium medium medium “Margaret Cackling” and “James Paris” in wreath over anchor on left Wellington William Geo. Groombridge Wellington June 22, 1835 embezzlement 3 months' labour ... England ... bakers’ 1860 s 63 fresh blue hazel medium medium medium arm ; J L on right arm. D on right arm ; I and dot on left arm. Wellington Wellington William O'Gorman ... John Davey, alias Masterton ... Wellington Sept. 14, 18S5 Aug. 27, 1S85 obscene language ... illegally on premises 7 days’labour 28 days’ labour Ireland ... England ... labourer ... baker 1863 1867 5 S 84 9 fair dark fair dark blue brown medium medium medium medium medium medium Lump on back of left hand. Blue spot on left arm. Wellington Florence Moriarty ... Wellington Aug. 29, 1885 larceny 1 month's labour ... England ... fireman ... 1864 5 2 swarthy light brown brown medium medium medium Crucifix, anchor, cross, and heart on left arm; FM, heart, cross, anchor, and bust of female on right arm. Scar on right side of neck. Wellington Wellington Mary Anderson John Rose Wellington Blenheim ... Aug. 29,1885 April 23, 1885 larceny false pretences 3 months' labour ... 6 months’ labour ... Ireland ... N. Zealand prostitute labourer ... 1839 1869 5 S 2 6 fresh dark brown brown It. hazel grey medium large, medium medium medium medium Oamaru ... Naseby ... James Joseph O’Nash Arthur Mills Oamaru St. Bathan’s Sept. 23, 1885 Aug. 31, 1885 robbery from the person larceny committed for trial ... 1 month’s labour ... Ireland ... N. Zealand shoemaker & labourer groom and butcher labourer 1849 1864 5 5 5 94 sandy sallow fair dark brown blue grey pointed short, cocked short medium medium medium medium Deeply pockpitted; mark of cut over left eye. Admitted to bail. Left little finger crooked. Naseby ... Thomas Day St. Bathan’s Aug. 31,1885 larceny 1 month’s labour ... N. Zealand 1865 5 7l fresh brown grey long, medium medium First joint of right little finger crooked ; • and groom straight mark of wound on left arm; mark of wound and small hole on top of head, Timaru ... Elizabeth Wigg, alias Timaru April 25, 1885 obscene language ... 6 months’ labour ... London ... married ... 1857 S 54 fresh brown blue medium medium medium right side. One previous conviction. Timaru ... James Dolan Waimate .. Aug. 31, 1885 resisting police and obscene language 14 days’ labour on each charge (cumulative ) British America seaman ... 1862 5 44 sallow black hazel medium medium medium One previous conviction. Crucifix, seven-pointed star, and half moon on left arm ; British coat-of-arms, &c., on back of both hands; ring round three fingers of left hand. One previous conviction. Timaru ... John Scott Timaru Aug. 3,1885 having no visible means of support obscene language ... 2 months’ labour ... London ... groom 1869 5 4 pale dark hazel medium medium medium Timaru ... Joseph Antonio Waimate ... Sept. 21,1885 14 days’ labour Bombay ... cook 1846 5 4 copper black, turnhazel flat large medium , Timaru ... Henry B Luxon Timaru ... Aug. 17, 1885 assault 1 month’s labour ... England ... labourer ... 1849 s 5 fresh ing grey dark grey medium medium medium Four blue dots on back of left hand; Lawrence... Cornelius Kelly Lawrence ... Sept. 2i, 1885 wilfully damaging property larceny ... 14 days’ labour N. Zealand rabbi ter ... 1869 4 ni fresh fair grey long medium medium anchor on both arms. Wart on back of left hand; mark of Invercargill John Russell Riverton ... July 1,1885 3 months’ labour ... Scotland... labourer ... 1834 S 4 sandy dark brown grey medium medium medium scar on second finger. One previous conviction. JR and heart on right arm; crown on left arm; mark of cut on forehead and nose. Three previous convictions. Upper teeth all out. Nail of right thumb injured; a lower Hokitika ... Hokitika ... Jane Elliott Ah Shing Ahaura Hokitika ... June 24, :88s Sept. 1, 1885 having no visible means of support housebreaking and larceny 3 months’ labour ... committed for trial... Scotland ... China matron ... miner 1826 1825 S S 34 44 pale jolive grey grey broad brown large medium large medium medium small front tooth decayed. Admitted to Mount Cook John O’Donnell N. Plymouth May 3, 1883 horse-stealing and larceny 3 years’ penal servitude on each charge N. Zealand boat-builder 1S32 6 0 dark black black medium medium medium bail. A half-caste Maori. Auckland... Michael O’Brien ... Auckland ... June 22, :88s obscene language ... (concurrent) 3 months’ labour ... N. Zealand labourer ... 1868 5 54 fresh dark brown grey large medium medium Mark of scald on breast; scar on right Auckland... Auckland... John Wilson John Brown Auckland ... Auckland ... April rs, 1885 June 23, 1885 larceny having no visible means of support larceny 6 months’ labour ... 3 months’ labour ... England ... Ireland ... labourer ... labourer ... 1845 1835 S 5 7 4i fresh swarthy sandy grey hazel hazel medium medium medium medium medium medium shin. Seventeen previous convictions. Nine previous convictions. Auckland... William Creighton ... Auckland ... Sept. 9, 1885 14 days’labour England ... carpenter 1S29 5 94 fresh dark brown dark br. medium medium medium Bullet-wound on left leg; shell-wound Auckland ... Auckland... Charles Carr James Jordan, alias Helensville... Helensville... Sept. 9, 1885 Sept. 9,188s larceny larceny 14 days’ labour 14 days’ labour England ... England ... sawyer ... labourer ... 1857 1857 5 5 5 5 fair fresh light brown black dk. blue grey medium medium medium medium medium medium on left knee-cap ; bald on top of head. One previous conviction. Auckland ... Auckland... Mary Richards ... Ellen McGarry Auckland ... Auckland ... Aug. 24,1885 Aug. 24,1885 habitual drunkenness having no visible means of support 1 month’s labour ... 1 month’s labour ... England ... England ... 1S56 1808 s s 2h z florid fresh fair black grey dk.grey medium medium medium medium medium medium Repeatedly convicted. Very stout. Auckland... Auckland... Emily Diver ... John McGarry Auckland ... Auckland ... Aug. 24,1885 Aug. 24, 1885 larceny having no visible means of support habitual drunkenness 1 month’s labour ... 1 month’s labour ... Ireland ... England ... carter 1846 1867 s 5 4 5 fresh fresh dark brown dark brown hazel brown medium drooped medium medium medium medium Repeatedly convicted. Auckland... William Stephens, Auckland ... June 23, 1885 3 months’ labour ... Ireland ... labourer ... 1856 S 4 fresh brown brown medium medium medium Four previous convictions. Auckland ... Thomas Kennedy Te Awamutu July 25,1885 larceny 2 months’ labour ... grey blue grey large medium medium medium medium medium Auckland ... Auckland ... Edward Howell Elizabeth Dougherty... Te Awamutu Auckland ... July 25, 188s Aug. 26, 1885 larceny having no visible means of support having no visible means of support 2 months’ labour ... 1 month’s labour ... N. Zealand Ireland ... 1870 :8o: 4 4 94 fresh n4 wrinkled light brown grey straight medium Repeatedly convicted. Auckland... Joseph Welling Auckland ... Aug. 26,188s 1 month’s.labour ... England ... labourer ... 1833 5 6 swarthy black It. hazel medium medium medium Previously convicted.

RETURN OF PRISONERS REPORTED AS DISCHARGED, ETC. — continued.