Deserting Wives and Families, &c.

New Zealand Police Gazette, Volume IX, Issue 23, 11 November 1885, Page 195

Deserting Wives and Families, &c.

(See Police Gazette, 1885, page 168.) Joseph llaggebty, charged on warrant with disobeying an order to pay for the support of his three children, has been arrested by Constable James Meehan, Fielding Police, and sentenced to one month’s imprisonment.

(See Police Gazette, 1885, page 129.) Edward Baker, alias Edward Joseph Baker, charged on warrant with disobeying an order to pay for the support of his two children, has been recently committed for trial at Sydney on a charge of bigamy.

(See Police Gazette, 1882, page 144, and 1883, page 71.) Special exertions are requested to be made to effect the arrest of Jeremiah Buckley, charged on warrant with disobeying an order to pay 10s. por week for the support of his five children in the Caversham Industrial School. He left Waikaia for Tapanui in July, 1882, and has not since been heard of. He may be employed as a railway surface-man, or as a navvy on the Otago Central line. He was £94 4s. in arrears on the 14th ultimo.

(See Police Gazette, 1884, page 116, and 1885, page 55.) Frank Evans, charged on warrant of commitment to gaol in default of paying 10s. fine and 13s. costs for obstructing the footpath in Colombo Street, Christchurch, has been arrested by Constable James Siddells, Ormondville Police. Fine and costs paid.

(See Police Gazette, 1885, page 63.) The distress warrant issued by the Christchurch Bench against Angleson Adams, for the recovery of £1 13s. due for the support of his mother, has been satisfied, the amount having been paid into Court.

John McManus is charged on warrant of commitment to Invercargill Gaol for two months’ labour, issued by the Invercargill Bench, for disobeying an order to pay 9s. per week towards the support of his three children in the Caversham Industrial School. Description: A native of Ireland, a labourer and army pensioner, sixty-three years of age, about 5 feet 10 inches high, medium build, fresh complexion, long face and nose, brown hair and whiskers turning grey, chin and upper lip shaved, bald on top of head, female figure tattooed on left forearm. He was £74 in arrear on the 31st ultimo.

(See Police Gazette, 1884, pago 201, and 1885, page 55.) John Colledge, charged on warrant with disobeying an order to pay 10s. per week towards the support of his wife, has been arrested by Constable Patrick Herbert, Auckland Police, and remanded to Thames,