Deserters from Her Majesty’s Service.

New Zealand Police Gazette, Volume IX, Issue 24, 25 November 1885, Page 204

Deserters from Her Majesty’s Service.

(See Police Gazette , 1885, page 185.) Henry Conway, charged with deserting from Her Majesty’s ship “ Diamond,” has been arrested by the New South Wales Police.

William Lewis and Charles Dann are charged with deserting from Her Majesty’s ship “ Myrmidon,” at Cockatoo Island, on the 6th instant. Description : Lewis is a native of St. Phillips, Bristol, a signal-seaman, twenty-two years of age, 5 feet inches high, fair complexion, grey eyes, and light-brown hair. Dann is a native of Sawky, Huntingdon, England, carpenter’s crew, twenty years of age, 5 feet 5£ inches high, fresh complexion, grey eyes, and dark-brown

hair, tattooed on both arms. A reward of £3 each is offered for their arrest, in addition to £5 reward offered by the Colonial Government.

George Dennis, David Weston, William Clewett, and Frank Verrils are charged with deserting from Her Majesty’s ship “ Opal,” at Sydney, on the 4th and 6th instant. Description : Dennis is a native of Bideford, Devon, a shipwright, twenty-seven years of age, 5 feet 10 inches high, heavily built, round-shouldered, fresh complexion, hazel eyes, light-brown hair, GD tattooed on right arm. Weston is a native of Tooting, Surrey, an able-seaman, twenty-one and threequarter years of age, 5 feet 7 inches high, ruddy freckled complexion, blue eyes, auburn hair, T tattooed on right forearm ; can play the cornet. Clewett is a native of St. Paul’s, London, boy, first class, eighteen years of age, 5 feet 5 inches high, stout build, fresh complexion, bright-grey eyes, light-brown hair, long nose, thick protruding lower lip. Verrils is a native of Brighton, Sussex, an ordinary seaman, eighteen and a half years of age, 5 feet 6 inches high, slight build, dark complexion, grey eyes, brown hair, hair on faco just beginning to grow, a bare patch on right side of head, FV tattooed on right arm; smart appearance and goodlooking. His father and brother live in Sydney. A reward of £3 each is offered for their arrest, in addition to £5 reward offered by the Colonial Government.