Offences Not Otherwise Described.

New Zealand Police Gazette, Volume XIII, Issue 5, 27 February 1889, Page 37

Offences Not Otherwise Described.

Michael French is charged, on warrant issued by the Lawrence Bench, with having, on the 22nd November last, at Rae’s Junction, near Lawrence, uttered a forged cheque for £4 15s. to Isabella Rae. Description : Irish, a labourer, about thirty years of age, sft. Tin. high, medium build, dark complexion, dark hair, dark beard whiskers and moustache worn short; dressed in old dark-tweed coat, vest, and trousers, and tweed hat; carried a swag in a sack. The cheque is drawn on the Colonial Bank, Lawrence, in favour of Michael French, and purports to be signed by John Carr. He said that he had been employed at Beaumont Station, and that he got the cheque from the manager. Mr. Kerr is the manager’s name at Beaumont. He went towards Teviot

Station, Roxburgh, on the day he uttered the cheque. This offender is identical with James Mitchell, alias Hogan, who was sentenced at Timaru on the 9th December, 1884, to five years’ penal servitude for breaking and entering. He was discharged from gaol at Wellington in October last, and was sent to Timaru. (For his description, &c., see Police Gazette , 1888, page 206.)

George Rogers is charged with forging and uttering an order for £26 11s. to J. H. Stone, at Methven, on the 2nd ultimo. Description: English, a station-cook and baker, about forty-two years of ago, sft. 4in. high, medium build, dark complexion, black hair beard whiskers and moustache worn short, dressed as a labourer, slovenly gait, dirty appearance, frequents publichouses, and is well known to the station-cooks and station-hands throughout Canterbury. He is also known at the Railway Boarding-house, Timaru. The order is drawn on the New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Company, Christchurch, and purports to be signed by John Williams, of Upton Downs. He is supposed to have gone to Ashburton or Rakaia. There is a similar charge pending against him.

Eugene McLean is charged, on warrant issued by the Timaru Bench, with obtaining, between the 27th December last and the 28th ultimo, at Timaru, board and lodging, value £5 165., from Digby Andrews, by false representations. Description ; Scotch, said he was an engineer or enginedriver, forty years of age, about sft. Sin. high, medium build, thin features, fair complexion and hair, clean-shaved except fair moustache and goatee ; wore light-grey-tweed suit and tweed hat with flat brim. He falsely represented that he was employed in the Railway Department at Timaru, and by that means obtained the board and lodgings. It is thought that he may endeavour to obtain board and lodgings similarly elsewhere.

Robert McMillan, alias Miller, is charged, on warrant issued by the Christchurch Bench, with having, on the 16th ultimo, in Manchester Street, Christchurch, obtained a jockey’s riding-colours and a pair of boots, value £5 10s., since recovered, from Peter Cairns by false pretences. Description : Supposed a native of the colony, Scotch parentage, a butcher and jockey, twenty-three or twenty-four years of age, sft. Gin. or 7in. high, medium build, clean-shaved except small fair moustache ; when last seen wore darktweed coat and vest; respectable appearance. He recently applied for employment in Mr. Rutherford’s stables, Oxford. He may have come to Wellington. He is known to Neill Miller, a horse-trainer, who is said to be in Wellington.

About 10.45 p.m. on the 7th instant, at Reefton, two men, names unknown, of whom no description can be obtained, violently assaulted Ah Sue by striking him twice on the head with a piece of wood, inflicting two wounds. One of the wounds is about 2in. long and £in. deep.

On the 15th or 16th instant, a galvanised-iron wash-tub was maliciously damaged, and some lime wilfully scattered

over the floor of the wash-house in the yard of the Railway Hotel, Lower Hutt, the property of John Drummond Pinkerton, thereby doing damage to the extent of 4s.

(See Police Gazette , 1889, page 27.)

Daniel Stacey, charged on warrant with forging and uttering an order for the payment of 10s. to Stephen Edward Crooke, has been arrested by Acting Detective Robert Neill, Christchurch Police. The charge of forgery and uttering was withdrawn, and one of false pretences substituted, for which the offender was sentenced to one month’s labour.