Offences Not Otherwise Described.

New Zealand Police Gazette, Volume X, Issue 19, 15 September 1886, Page 169

Offences Not Otherwise Described.

Charles Cook is charged, on warrant issued by the Featherston Bench, with having, on the 12th July last, at Tauranganui, Martinborough, obtained £1 15s. from Eli, a Maori, by false pretences. Description: A German, a machinist, about twenty-five years of age, sft. sin. or 6in. high, medium build, fair complexion, large nose, fair hair, very little hair on face except small fair moustache; wore dark-tweed suit and hard felt hat; speaks very good English. He falsely represented that he was an agent of the Singer Sewing-machine Company, Wellington, and obtained the money as a deposit on the purchase of a sewing-machine on the time-payment system, which he promised to forward on his return to Wellington. He visited all the Maori pas between Napier and Martinborough, and obtained money at all of them on similar representations. He is not an agent of the Singer Sewing-machine Company, Wellington, nor of any of the other sewing-machine establishments here.

(See Police Gazette, 1886, pages 152 and 159.)

Michael Redmond, charged on warrant with having maliciously broken a window in the dwelling of John Joseph O’Brien, at Poratarau tunnel, has been arrested by Constable James C. Addison, Waikato Police, and ordered to pay ss. and costs.

Between 8 and hi a.m. on the 2nd instant, at Wyndhaffi, an attempt was made to poison a racehorse, the property of Thomas Mortimer, by mixing phosphorus amongst the oats in the feed-box of the horse. Mr. Mortimer, on examining the oats in the feed-box, thought it had a peculiar smell, and took the oats out of the box and put them in a tub in the pigstye for use of his pigs. Five of the pigs who ate the oats have since died.