Stealing Otherwise than from the Person or from Dwellings.

New Zealand Police Gazette, Volume X, Issue 12, 9 June 1886, Page 107

Stealing Otherwise than from the Person or from Dwellings.

Mary Caraher is charged, on warrant issued by the Wellington Bench, with the larceny as a bailee, at Wellington, on the 24th ultimo, of a couch and a table, value £1 45., the property of William Carpenter. Description: Irish, a boardinghouse-keeper, about fifty years of age, very short stout build, grey hair, two lower-front teeth out; wore dark dress, dark jacket, and drab hat or bonnet. She is supposed to have left Wellington on the 28th ultimo by the steamer “ Waihora ” for Sydney, by way of Auckland.

Stolen on the 2nd or 3rd instant, from Wellington Harbour, a half-decker boat, 12ft. long and 3ft. beam, with rudder and tiller, built three months ago, bottom painted green and top plank painted white, two odd oars, and two new ropes ; the property of John Richards and others ; value £6. Identifiable.

Stolen on the 25th ultimo, at Bunnythorpe, near Palmerston North, a silver lever Waltham hunting-watch, number not known, 705 stamped on inside of outer case, a steel guard with three threepenny pieces, a sixpenny piece, two watch-keys, and a broken watch-key attached; and a pocket-knife with two blades and wooden handle, A cut in handle; tho property of Thomas Rogers; value £4 Bs. Identifiable.

Stolen on the 12th or 13th April last, at Mangorei, Taranaki District, one and a half coils of two-strand barbed wire, ljcwt. weight, ACME and TIMARU painted on spools ; the property of Jessie Petrie; value £2. Identification doubtful.

(See Police Gazette, 1886, page 97.) The harrows and swing-bar, the property of Samuel McLees, reported stolen at Wairio, have been recovered.

: Stolen on the 16th ultimo, from an outhouse at Cambridge, an old saddle, off knee-pad off, old rusty stirrup-irons; the property of William Madigan; value £l. Identifiable.

Stolen supposed between the 16th and 19th ultimo, from the premises of John Myles, Hastings, Hawke’s Bay District, twenty-three saucers, twenty-nine mugs, twelve tea-cups, twelve egg-cups, two long china candlesticks, and twentythree china bedroom-candlesticks ; value £2 17s. 2d. The property has since been found concealed in a hedge, about a quarter of a mile from Mr. Myles’s premises.

Stolen on the 27th or 28th April last, from a stable at Waitara, a single-rein bridle with iron bit, cheek-bars bent, value 4s. ; and a pair of silver-plated stirrup-irons, cracked at lower part of stirrup-leather hole, value 10s. ; the property of James Attridge Connell. Identifiable. Suspicion attached to Timata Rona, a Maori, a stable-boy, seventeen years of age, sft. Sin. high, dark hair and moustache; wears blueserge coat, moleskin trousers, and black billycock hat.

(See Police Gazette, 1886, page 79.)

The watch and chain, the property of Thomas Norris, stolen from a cabin of the barque “ G. M. Tucker,” at Lyttelton, have been recovered, and traced to the possession of George Millar, alias Charles Miller, alias Duffy, arrested by Detective Maurice O’Connor, Christchurch Police, and sentenced to six months’ labour. He was also sentenced to fifteen months’ labour on five other charges of larceny.

(See Police Gazette, 1886, page 87.)

The watch, the property of William Stirling, stolen from the cabin of the ketch “ Owake Belle,” at Dunedin, has been recovered, and traced to the possession of George Prescott, arrested by Constable Bernard McLaughlin, Dunedin Police, and sentenced to one month’s labour.

Stolen on the 17th or 18th ultimo, from off a load of hay, at Remuera, near Auckland, a strong canvas cover, 18ft. by 23ft., rather dirty, six holes cut with a knife at sides; the property of George Totty; value £3. Identifiable.

(See Police Gazette, 1886, page 97.)

The bag containing money-orders, &c., the property of David Murchie, supposed stolen from off a horse at Makaraka, has with contents been recovered. It was found concealed in a hedge near where it was taken off the horse.

Stolen between the 26th April last and the 11th ultimo, from a box at St. John’s railway-platform, Wanganui, a nearly-new pair of white blankets, stained, and overcast with red wool; a nearly-new pair of men’s kid shoes, size 6, heel- and toe-plates; two nearly-new brown-and-white striped Crimean shirts ; a dark-crimean shirt, a set of shoe-brushes, nearly new, LAL cut in back of each; a greenish-coloured carpet-bag, nearly new, containing a new blue cardigan jacket with a small hole in back below collar, several old shirts and singlets, a memorandum-book, several receipts, and a soiled white shirt wrapped in brown paper; the property of Leonard Alexander Langley; value £6 10s. Identifiable.

Stolen on the 19th or 20th ultimo, from a building in course of erection in Queen Street, Onehunga, a carpenters’ kit, containing three squares, a bevel, three 2-feet rules, a spirit-level, a rip-saw, a crosscut hand-saw, a jack-plane, a smoothing-plane, nine chisels, a brace and nineteen bits, two hammers, an oilstone set in wood, five files, two gimlets, a tenon-saw, two screwdrivers, and a double gauge; the property of Andrew Cunningham and James Pearce ; value £6. Identifiable. Suspicion attached to a man, name unknown, who asked for employment at the building. Description: About fifty years of age, dark-brown hair, full beard turning grey ; wore shabby drab clothes and dark soft felt hat. He may be identical with John Brady. (See Police Gazette, 1886, page 45.)

Stolen on the 18th or 19tli ultimo, from a blacksmith’s shop at Collarbone Spur, Thames, four steel drills, 3ft. long, W cut in centre of each ; two one-pointed pickaxes, a blacksmiths’ tongs, a pair of canvas trousers, and twenty-three lib. packets of candles marked “ Union Oil, Soap, and Candle Co., Limited;” the property of Henry Angove and party; value £2. Drills and trousers identifiable.

Stolen between the 22nd and 25th ultimo, from a shed at Tataraimaka, Taranaki District, a bag containing 751 b. of cocksfoot and timothy grass-seeds, bag marked NK in black paint; the property of Henry Okeyj; value £1 7s. 6d. Bag identifiable.

Stolen on the 22nd or 23rd ultimo, from a paddock off Cameron Street, New Plymouth, a wooden wheelbarrow, painted brown, iron tire on wheel; the property of Francis Peacock Corkill; value £1 ss. Identifiable.

Stolen on the 31st ultimo, from the stable of John Lane, Pipitea Point, Wellington, a saddle, about a year in use, iron stirrup-irons, rusty, and a red and white girth ; value £2. Identifiable.

Stolen about the 2nd instant, from a wash-house at Clifton Terrace, Wellington, a brown-cotton dress with white spots, the property of Sarah Beirne, value 10s.; and a bluecotton dress with white, green, and red spots, the property of Mary Ann Walker, value 7s. 6d. Identifiable.