Deserters from Her Majesty’s Service.

New Zealand Police Gazette, Volume X, Issue 19, 15 September 1886, Page 172

Deserters from Her Majesty’s Service.

James Dwyer, Walter C. Hodgson, George Brown, Henry Benjeyfield, and Charles Lj r on 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 Cahir, County Tipperary, a stoker, about twenty years of age, sft. 10£in. high, fresh complexion, brown liair, and blue eyes. Hodgson is a native of Essex, nineteen years of age, sft. 6in. high, fresh complexion, 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. Gin. high, fair complexion, light hair, blue eyes, anchor tattooed on left arm. Lyon is a native of Surrey, eighteen years of age, sft. 4in. 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, lihht-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.

George Wade, William D. Smith, George H. Callow, Joseph Goodwin, David Sinclair, and John Price are charged with deserting from Her Majesty’s ship “Myrmidon,” at Townsville, Queensland, on the 13th ultimo. Description: Wade is an able-seaman, a native of St. Mary’s, England, twenty-six years and six months old, sft. 7in. high, fair complexion, brown hair, and blue eyes. Smith is a native of South Stoneham, England, a second-class signalman, twenty years and two months old, sft. sin. high, sallow complexion, darkbrown hair, and blue eyes, anchor tattooed on both sides of left arm. Callow is a native of Marylebone, England, an ordinary-seaman, twenty years and four months old, sft. 6in. high, fresh complexion, brown hair, and hazel eyes, scar over right eye. Goodwin is-a native of Wednesbury, England, an ordinary-seaman, nineteen years and eight months old, sft. sin. high, fair complexion, brown hair, and grey eyes, scars on right arm above elbow. Sinclair is a native of Shankhill, Belfast, an able-seaman, twenty-three years and three months old, sft. 4|-in. high, fresh complexion, light hair, and blue ej'os, sailor tattooed on right forearm. Price is a native of Birmingham, an able-seaman, twenty-six years and eight months old, sft. 2in. high, fresh complexion, brown hair, and hazel eyes, anchor tattooed on right arm. A reward of £3 each is offered for their arrest, in addition to £5 reward offered by the Colonial Government.