Offences Not Otherwise Described.

New Zealand Police Gazette, Volume IX, Issue 23, 11 November 1885, Page 193

Offences Not Otherwise Described.

(See Police Gazette, 1885, page 183.)

H. H. Waddell, alias Worrall, charged on warrant with forging the names of Gillott and Snowden to a bill for £SO drawn on the Union Bank of Australia, Melbourne. Offender has with him two brown-leather portmanteaus and a cago containing a cockatoo. He uttered the forged bill to Henry Benjamin, money-lender, Manse Street, Dunedin, by whom it was discounted. Annio Watson, alias Jackson, by whom he is accompanied, and who passes as his wife, is a prostitute, and formerly lived at Annie Watson’s brothel, Big Lonsdale Street, Melbourne, and subsequently lived with offender at St. Kilda, near Melbourne.

T. It. Weir and A. Higgie are charged, on warrants issued by the Brisbane Bench, with the larceny as bailees of 742 bags of maize and 123 bags of potatoes, the property of George Wallace and Co. Description: Weir is twenty-four years of age, 5 feet 7 inches high, medium build, heavy shoulders, dark-brown hair, no hair on face except moustache. Higgie is twenty-four years of age, 5 feet 10 inches high, rather slight build, fair complexion, fair hair moustache and side whiskers. It is supposed they left Sydney for this colony about a fortnight ago.

On the 31st ultimo, at the Exhibition, Wellington, three deep scratches were maliciously made with a hard substance across the dashboard and one on the door of a carriage, the property of Messrs. Cousin and Atkin, thereby damaging it.

On the morning of the 28th ultimo five large panes of glass, value £2 10s., were maliciously broken in the windows of the Salvation Army Barracks, at Palmerston North.

At 10.30 p.m., on the 19th ultimo, a large pane of glass, value £1 10s., was maliciously broken in the shopwindow of Emanuel Sincock, Pollen Street, Thames.

(See Police Gazette, 1883, page 141, and 1884, page 58.)

The warrant issued by the Christchurch Bench for the arrest of George Warno, for embezzling £l2, the moneys of Aaron Ayers and Co., has been cancelled.

George Wiiliam Brigham is charged, on warrant issued by the Rotorua Bench, with having about the 20th ultimo, at Petane, utte red a forged cheque for £5 to William Villars. Description : A native of Yorkshire, a surveyor, thirty years of age, 5 feet 9 inches high, sandy beard whiskers and moustache. The cheque is on the Bank of New Zealand, Tauranga, drawn in favour of Mr. Brigham, and purports to be signed by William McGary. Offender endorsed the cheque G. W. Brigham. It is said that ho has committed several other similar offences at Rotorua. It is believed that he will endeavour to leave the colony.

Between the 31st ultimo and 4th instant, at the Exhibition, Wellington, the splashboards of a phaeton and a buggy, the property of Michael Bohan, were maliciously scratched with a hard substance, thereby damaging them to the extent of £5.

Joseph Bland is charged, on warrant issued by the Dunedin Bench, with having on the 29th ultimo, at Dunedin, embezzled £590, the property of Stewart Dawson and Co., watch manufacturers, by whom he was employed as manager. Description: English, twenty-seven years of age, 5 feet 8 inches high, medium build, fair complexion, fair hair, very small side whiskers and moustache, generally wears blueserge suit and black hard-felt hat. He left Dunedin on the 30th ultimo, and will endeavour to leave the colony.

(See Police Gazette, 1885, pages 165 and 166.)

James Maiion, charged on warrant with having embezzled a cheque for £2 12s. 4d., the property of Alfred Pritchard and Co., has been arrested by Constable Douglas Gordon, Whangarei Police, and discharged with a caution.