Stealing Otherwise than from the Person or from Dwellings.

New Zealand Police Gazette, Volume X, Issue 13, 23 June 1886, Page 117

Stealing Otherwise than from the Person or from Dwellings.

(See Police Gazette, 1886, page 107.)

Mary Caraher, charged on warrant with the larceny as a bailee of a couch and table, the property of William Carpenter, left Wellington by the steamer “ Wakatu ” for Lyttelton, with the intention of going thence to London by the steamer “ Tainui,” which sailed on the 25th ultimo.

Stolen between the 11th and 14th instant, from the back •of Mr. Flockton’s premises, off Willis Street, Wellington, a black-beaver coat, one of skirt-pockets torn, a blue-black paget-coat with a tear in right side, and a jet-black pagetcoat, all newly dyed; the property of Charles Walker; value £1 ss. Identifiable.

Stolen on the Bth or 9th instant, from an outhouse at Devon Street, New Plymouth, three sides of bacon and five hams ; the property of William Bailey; value £5.

Stolen on the 15th or 16th instant, from the stable of James Ewington, Opaki, Masterton, a colonial-made bullockhide saddle, near knee-pad recently repaired, a leather girth, and a surcingle ; value £4 10s. Identifiable.

Stolen on the 16th instant, from the dwelling of Patrick Healy, Pukerua, Wellington District, eleven £1 notes on the Union Bank of Australia. Suspicion attached to William Williams, who occupied the house with Healy. Description: English, a labourer, twenty-seven years of age, sft. lOin. high, medium build, dark complexion, hooked hose, dark hair, dark whiskers, worn short; wore grey-tweed coat and drab-moleskin trousers. He left Pukerua on the 16th instant, and is supposed to have come to Wellington. <

Supposed stolen on the 14th ultimo, at Wantwood Station, Southland District, a large brown waterproof-overcoat and a large rough pilot-cloth overcoat, with band at back ; the property of G. M. Bell; value £5 each. Identifiable.

Stolen on the Bth instant, from off the rails of the rail-way-line at Seacliff, Dunedin District, two railway fogsignals ; value 6d.; the property of the Government. Identification doubtful.

Stolen between the Ist and 6th instant, from a shed at Hamilton East, Waikato District, a very old saddle, torn across centre of seat and a narrow piece of leather sewn over tear, lining worn through in several places, plain stirrupirons and leather girth ; the property of John Dixon ; value £l. Identifiable.

Stolen on the Bth instant from the ticket-office, at the Town Hall, Hawera, £1 7s. in silver ; the property of John Saville Smith, manager of the “Called Back” Dramatic and Comedy Company.

(See Police Gazette, 1886, page 108.) The wheelbarrow, the property of Francis Peacock Corkhill, reported stolen at New Plymouth, has been recovered.

Stolen during the night of the Ist instant, from the premises of William Isaac, Hillside, near Dunedin, a child’s zinc bath, value £2; an American cloth-wringer, rather large size, value £2; and a common washing-board, value 2s. Bath and wringer supposed identifiable.

Stolen between the sth and Bth instant, at Otama, Southland District, six bags of white velvet wheat, bags branded WP; the property of John Watson; value £6, Bags identifiable.

Stolen on the 25th ultimo, from off a fence at Cambridge Terrace, Christchurch, two pairs of moreen socks, two pairs of boys’ red socks, and a pair of men’s swans’-down drawers ; the property of Janet Hawkins ; value 7s. Identifiable.

Stolen between the 30th March last and the 26th ultimo, from a barn at Pukekohe, Auckland District, four bags of oats and seven bags of oaten chaff; the property of Thomas Hogan ; value £3 9s.

Stolen on the 20th or 21st ultimo, from off a horse at Ashburton, a nearly-new horse-cover, with “ W. Patching, Ashburton,” marked thereon; the property of Thomas Perks ; value £1 4s. Identifiable.

Stolen on the 2nd or 3rd instant, at Allenton, Timaru District, two houdan chickens; the property of William Silcock ; value £2. Identifiable.

Stolen on the 3rd or 4th instant, from the clothes-line of Barbara Thoms, at Mornington, near Dunedin, two whitelinen table-cloths, one nearly new, the other about half-worn, with two or three spots of ink on one of the corners ; a nightdress, a chemise, and two pillow-cases ; value 12s. Identifiable.

Supposed stolen about the 4th January last, from Hawera, a small pug-and-terrier dog, about three years old, mouse-colour with white hairs, answers to the name of “ Muggins ;” the property of Henry Edwin Trewin ; value £3, Identifiable. Suspicion attached to a man, name unknown, about twenty-six years of age, about sft. 6in. high, stout build, ruddy complexion, dark hair, very little hair on face. He said that he was employed as a diver at the New Plymouth breakwater.

Stolen on the Ist instant, at Lyttelton, a cheque for £1 3s. on the Bank of New Zealand, Lyttelton, drawn by H. N. Nalder ; the property of Mary Ann Kay. The cheque has since been cashed at the bank by a person unknown.

Stolen on the 31st ultimo or Ist instant, from No. 22 Railway Bridge, Waipawa, a double-headed maul, about 61b. weight, battered at ends, and two lin. augers, one concave, the other square, with ironbark handles; the property of ILaydon Douner ; value 17s. Identifiable.