Offences Not Otherwise Described.

New Zealand Police Gazette, Volume X, Issue 13, 23 June 1886, Page 115

Offences Not Otherwise Described.

(See Police Gazette , 1886, page 105.) Thomas Weddington, charged on warrant with having obtained £3 from Edward Brown by false pretences, has been arrested by Detective Maurice O’Connor, Christchurch Police, and remanded to Dunedin.

(See Police Gazette, 1886, page 95.)

Jonathan Rankin Henderson, charged on warrant with embezzling money, the property of the Equitable Life Assurance Society, is supposed to have gone to Melbourne. A letter for him, addressed to Melbourne, was recently posted at Balclutha, supposed by his brother.

On the morning of the Ist instant the pound at Haw era, the property of William Jackson, was broken open and five head of cattle r< scued therefrom.

A man, name unknown, is charged with having indecently . exposed his person to Minnie Bhannon and May Palmer, at > Clifton Terrace, Wellington, at 4.30 p.m. on the Btli instant.

Description : About thirty years of age, sft. 6in. or 7in. high, medium build, sallow complexion, dark eyes, light-brown hair, clean - shaved except light-brown moustache ; wore dark sac-coat and hard black-felt hat. Identifiable.

On the Ist or 2nd instant, at Taharoa, near Otonga, Auckland District, a cow, value £6, the property of Eru Nehua, was maliciously shot dead.

About the 30th ultimo, at Eweburn, near Naseby, thirty bags containing corn, the property of R. and T. Inder, were maliciously cut, thereby doing damage to the extent of £1 10s.

James C. Heaton, alias IT. H. Waddell, alias Worrall, is charged, on warrant issued by the Wellington Bench, with having, on the 15th January last, at Wellington, uttered a forged promissory note for £145 to Lionel Harris, from whom he obtained £BO on the forged note. Description : English, looks like a clerk, thirty years of age, sft. 9in. high, slender build, fair complexion, dark-yellow hair, clean-shaved except sandy moustache and very small side whiskers, rather roundshouldered, near-sighted ; wore black-worsted cloth coat and vest, light - tweed trousers, and black hard felt hat. The forged note was drawn in favour of James 0. Heaton, and purported to be signed by Cuff and Graham, shipping agents, Christchurch. The note and a letter purporting to have been sent to offender, at Wellington, were stamped “ Cuff and Graham, Shipping Agents, Christchurch.” It has been ascertained that a man of offender’s description got three rubber-stamps of this description made at Auckland on the 4th January last. He is believed to be identical with H. H. Waddell, alias Worrall, charged on warrant with forgery committed at Dunedin. (See Police Gazette, 1885, pages 183 and 193.)

William Cameron is charged, on warrant issued by the Napier Bench, with having, on the 7th instant, attempted to obtain £lO at the Post Office Savings Bank, Napier, by false representations. Description: A native of the colony, a labourer, about twenty-four years of age, sft. lOin. or llin. high, slight build, thin features, pale complexion, small fair moustache, may have a few scattered hairs on sides of face; wore dirty light-tweed suit and light-coloured soft felt hat; dirty appearance. He is supposed to have gone to Patea, Hawke’s Bay District. He obtained possession of a post office savings bank book, with £lO to credit, belonging to his brother, Dougald Cameron, and tore his brother’s name out of the book and inserted his own name, and presented the book at the savings bank, representing that he was the depositor, and making a demand for the £lO.