Deserters from Her Majesty’s Service.

New Zealand Police Gazette, Volume X, Issue 12, 9 June 1886, Page 109

Deserters from Her Majesty’s Service.

James Dwyer, Walter C. Hodgson, George Brown, Henry Benjeyfield, and Charles Lyon are charged on warrants with deserting from Her Majesty’s ship “Nelson,” at Auckland, on the sth January last; and Frederick O’Neill is charged on warrant with deserting from the same ship, at Wellington, on the 20th of the same month. Description : Dwyer is a native of Gahir, County Tipperary, a stoker, about twenty years of age, sft. 10-Jin. high, fresh complexion, brown hair, and blue eyes. Hodgson is a native of Essex, nineteen years of age, sft. Gin. high, fresh comglexion, brown hair, hazel eyes, American crest on right forearm. Brown is a native of Stratford, England, eighteen years of age, sft. lin. high, ruddy complexion, dark-brown hair, hazel eyes. Benjeyfield is a native of Somerset, England, nineteen years of age, sft. sin. high, fair complexion, light hair, blue eyes, anchor tattooed on left arm. Lyon is a native of Surrey, eighteen years of age, sft. lin. high, dark complexion, black hair, and dark eyes, CL tattooed on right arm and T on left arm. O’Neill is a native of Boston, Lincolnshire, an ordinary-sea-man, nineteen years of age, sft. Gin. high, fair complexion, light-brown hair, grey eyes, clasped hands tattooed on back of right hand. A reward of £3 each is offered for their arrest, in addition to £5 reward offered by the Colonial Government. The Government desires special exertions to be made towards effecting the arrest of these men.

John E. Doyle is charged with deserting from Her Majesty’s ship “ Harrier,” at Cooktown, on the 2nd ultimo. Description : A native of Birmingham, an ordinary-seaman, twenty-one years of age, sft. 2in. high, fair complexion, brown hair and eyes. A reward of £3 is offered for his arrest, in addition to £5 reward offered by the Colonial Government.

William Hardy is charged with desertiug from Her Majesty’s ship “ Myrmidon,” at Sydney, on the sth ultimo. Description : A native of Horsley, Gloucestershire, an ableseaman, twenty-four and a half years of age, sft. Gin. high, fresh complexion, light-brown hair and eyes. A reward of £3 is offered for his arrest, in addition to £5 reward offered by the Colonial Government.

(See Police Gazette, 1886, page 98.)

John Young, charged on warrant with deserting from Her Majesty’s ship “Nelson,” at Wellington, has been arrested. He was arrested on the 26tli ultimo, by Constable Henry Salmon, Wellington Police, on a charge of drunkenness, when he gave the name of Henry Staples, and while in custody on that charge was identified by Detective William Campbell, Wellington Police.