Stealing Otherwise than from the Person or from Dwellings.

New Zealand Police Gazette, Volume IX, Issue 22, 28 October 1885, Page 184

Stealing Otherwise than from the Person or from Dwellings.

F. Love is charged, on warrant issued by the Dunedin Bench, with the larceny as a bailee, on the 13th instant, at Dunedin, of a watch; the property of Robert John Tanner. Description : A watchmaker, forty years of age, 5 feet 7 or 8 inches high, medium build, dark-brown hair beard whiskers and moustache, whiskers turning grey, flat nose; wore dark-brown-tweed sac-suit and black hard felt hat. He pawned the watch, which was given to him by Tanner to repair.

Stolen between 1 p.m. on the 10th and 8 a.m. on the 12th instant, from the Caxton Printing Office, Princes Street, Dunedin, a magnifying glass, value 10s. 6d.; a small scraper, value 3s. 6d. ; a pocket-knife with two blades, value Is.; a reducing compass, value 155.; a pair of scissors, value 3s. 6d.; and a brass-wire sieve, about 9 inches in diameter, value 25.; the property of John Fulton. Identifiable.

A letter, the property of George Crichton, posted at Feilding on the 2nd instant, addressed “Mrs. George Crichton, care Mr. George Crichton, Government Insurance Department, Wellington,” has not reached its destination,

and it is supposed has been stolen. It contained a£s note and two £1 notes.

(See Police Gazette, 1885, page 17T.)

Stealing an oilskin coat at Wellington, the property of William Gardner: The charge against the man Sinclair has been withdrawn, as it has been ascertained that the coat pawned by him is not the stolen one. The stolen coat is now described as a black oilskin, slightly worn at the top of shoulders, four buttons on front.

Stolen between the Ist April and the 31st July last, from the Cricket Pavilion, Eastern Reserve, Invercargill, four cricket-bats with spliced-cane handles, makers Corbett and Duke, ICC burnt in back of some and front of others, value £4; six varnished wickets with iron tips and brass tops, value 155.; three pairs of leg-guards, nearly new, ICC in pencil marked on inside, value £2 ; two pairs of battinggloves, value 10s.; and a pair of leather gauntlets with ICC marked on inside of wristband, value Bs.; the property of T. Kingsland. Identifiable.

Stolen on the 15th or 16th instant, at St. Kilda, near Dmiedin, a packing-case, feet by 3£ feet, lined with zinc; the property of Henry Cornish Bennett; value 6s. Identifiable.

Stolen on the 12th or 13th instant, from the Cricket Pavilion, Racecourse Reserve, Invercargill, two new cricketbats branded ICC, value £1 7s. 6d. each, and two new cricketballs of a reddish colour, value Bs. 6d. each ; the property of T. Kingsland. Identifiable.

(See Police Gazette, 1885, page 177.) The saddle and breeching stolen from the stable of Charles McDeavitt, at Gisborne, have been recovered.

Stolen on the 28th or 29th ultimo, from a railway-truck at Wairio, Southland District, an ll£lb. box of tea, branded 1 No. BathgatT&Co. 31 | the P ro P erfc y of WiUiam Gruar 5 value £1 ss. Identifiable.

Stolen about the 11th instant, from the yard of the Museum, King Street, Dunedin, a piece of wire netting, 8 by 3 feet, £-inch mesh; the property of the Government; value 6s. Identifiable.

Stolen on the 10th instant, from off a horse at Masterton, an old hogskin saddle, flaps very much worn from friction of stirrup-leathers, one of stirrup-leathers belonged to a racingsaddle, the other made of strong leather, common irons, and a sheepskin girth; the property of James Macara; value £2. Identifiable.

(Seo Police Gazette, 1885, pago 177.) The collie dog, the property of Robert Pearson, reportod stolen at Hawkesbury, has been found dead in a water-hole on Mr. Pearson’s land.

Stolen on the 10th instant, from the railway-line at Brint’s Point, near Hawkesbury, a plain tin railway fogsignal ; the property of the Government. Identification doubtful.

Stolen during March, 18S4, from tho Grange, Kaikoura, a small chaff-cutter; the property of H. H. Knowles; value £3. Identifiable.

Stolen on the Ist instant, from the fowlhouse of Robert Lockhead, at Kaikoura, a common brown fowl; value Is. 6d. Identification doubtful.

Stolen on the 15th or 16th instant, from tho garden of Thomas Moore, Webb Street, Wellington, a garden-spado, nearly new, edge of blade sharpened with a file; value 7s. 6d. Identifiable.

Stolen on the 9th instant, from the Railway Wharf, Auckland, a bag of oats, bag branded yg-Nff; the property of Stone Brothers ; value 14s. Bag identifiable.

Stolen on the 14th or 15th instant, from a new building at Sentinel Road, Ponsonby, two braces and bits, two ripsaws, a crosscut-saw, a panel-saw, a bow-saw, a 12-inch square with a hole through blade, and a level, “ R. Angus ” stamped on handles; tho property of Richard Angus ; value £2 4s. Id. Identifiable.

(See Police Gazette, 1885, page 167.) The bag of oats, tho property of John Barton, stolen from

a shod at tho wharf, Warkworth, has been traced to the possession of Joseph Wech, who took it in mistake.

Stolen on the 21st instant from the jockey’s room at Waerengahika, Poverty Bay District, a gentleman’s whalebone riding-whip, covered with catgut, makers Swaine and Adaine, London, whose names are on it, silver ferrule with H. H. EWBN thereon, silver-platted wire on head; the property of H. H. Ewun; value £1 10s. Identifiable.