Housebreaking, Stealing from the Person and from Dwellings.

New Zealand Police Gazette, Volume XII, Issue 12, 6 June 1888, Page 108

Housebreaking, Stealing from the Person and from Dwellings.

Between 5 p.m. on the 25tli and 8 a.m. on the 2Gth ultimo the shop of Messrs. Mason and Struthers, Colombo Street, Christchurch, was broken into, and the following stolen: Two five-chambered plated revolvers, with wooden stocks, 450 bore, maker W. H. Tisdale, Birmingham, value £2 10s. each ; and four boxes of cartridges, makers Smith and Wessons, value £l. Revolvers identifiable.

Stolen on the 21st or 22nd ultimo, from the Railway Hotel, Invercargill, a cornsack, containing a new browncheck Mosgiel-tweed sac-suit, size 5 ; two pairs of new watertight boots, nailed ; a pair of old boots, newly soled and heeled ; a pair of new brown-moleskin trowsers, size 5 ; an old brown-felt hat, a packet of note-paper and envelopes, three packets of boot-preservers, and a new GBD pipe ; the property of Robert Sutherland; value £5. Hat and old boots identifiable.

Stolen on the 31st ultimo, from the shop-door of Isaac Levy, Willis Street, Wellington, a pair of dark, indistinctcheck tweed trowsers, size 5 or G; value 12s. Gd. Identifiable.

Stolen on the 30th ultimo, from the chemist’s shop of Michael Sheehy, Courtenay Place, Wellington, a Weiss patent reservoir-syringe, made of japanned zinc, about Sin. square by ljin. thick, painted green with a gold stripe round it; value £1 ss. Identifiable.

(See Police Gazette, 1888, pages 90 and 98.) Stealing a gun from the tent of Bernt Berg, at Eketahuna: George Ewart has been arrested for this offence by Constablp James Meehan, Feilding Police, and remanded to Masterton.

On the morning of the 25th ultimo the draper’s shop of Byron Brown, Manners Street, Wellington, was broken into, and five £1 notes, two sovereigns, and £1 in silver stolen from a till in the shop.

Stolen on the 17th or 18th ultimo, from a hut at Balmoral, near Ngapara, a black-leather purse containing a £5 note, two £1 notes, and 12s. in silver ; the property of John Pernickie. Purse identifiable.

Between 9 p.m. on the 18th and 9 a.m. on the 19th ultimo the chemist’s shop of William W. Price, Hereford Street, Christchurch, was broken into, and about seven threepenny pieces, between 12s. and 15s. in coppers, about a dozen bottles of scent, and a bottle of standard glycerine cucumber stolen ; value about 12s.

Between 9 p.m. on the 18th and G a.m. on the 19tli ultimo the office of W. L. File, butcher, Gisborne, was broken into, and about £5 10s. in silver stolen.

About the Ist December last a dwelling at Mabel Bush, Southland District, the property of I). A. Cameron, was broken into, and the following stolen : lewt. of No. 8 fencingwire, value 10s.; 1J coils of barbed wire, value £1 165.; J tin of staples, value 55.; a 281 b. tin of white lead, value 9s. ; a fleece of black wool, value 7s. Gd. ; an old opossum rug, value 10s.; a red blanket, value Bs.; a double-fleeced sheepskin, supposed branded ®, value 55.; a number of pannikins, some of them stamped DC, and some knives and forks, value 10s. The marked pannikins identifiable.

Stolen on the 2Gth ultimo, from an office in Dee Street, Invercargill, a nearly-new single-breasted dark-check waterproof overcoat, large size, two outside hip-pockets, buttons round neck for cape ; the property of James Wilson; value £2 10s. Identifiable.