Offences Not Otherwise Described.

New Zealand Police Gazette, Volume XIII, Issue 10, 8 May 1889, Page 1

Offences Not Otherwise Described.

Thomas Joseph Morrow is charged, on warrant issued by the Auckland Bench, with having, on the 30th March last, at Arch Hill, Auckland, embezzled the sums of £1 and 55., the moneys of the Arch Hill Road Board, by whom he was em-

ployed as clerk and rate-collector. Description :,A colonial) about twenty-six years of age, about sft. 9in. high, medium build, dark complexion, thick black hair, small side whiskers and short dark moustache, high cheek-bones, and rather heavy eyebrows for a young man, coarse strong voice; usually wears dark-tweed sac-suit and hard black hat. His parents live at Arch Hill. Several other charges will be preferred against him. His defalcations amount to about £126. He is supposed to have left Auckland on the 31st March by the steamer “ Wainui ” for Fiji.

Thomas Rooney is charged, on warrant issued by the Oamaru Bench, with forging and uttering an order to William Smyth, at Oamaru, on the 2nd ultimo. Description : A native of the County Kerry, a labourer, thirty-one years of age, sft. high, medium build, dark complexion, blue eyes, brown hair, darkish shaggy beard whiskers and moustache, scar on left temple, mark of cut on nose and near right eye; dressed in old grey-tweed paget-coat, dark-ish-tweed trousers, and black soft-felt hat. He was sentenced at Timaru, on the 29th October last, to three months’ labour for larceny. (See Police Gazette , 1889, page 35.) He obtained goods from Mr. Smyth by means of the forged order.

(See Police Gazette, 1889, page 12.)

Ernest Ralph Woodward, charged on warrant with embezzling money, the property of his employers, Cleverdon and Westley, Melbourne, has been arrested by the Brisbane Police.

(See Police Gazette, 1889, pages 63 and 73.)

John McAuley, alias Hugh Brown, alias John McCulloch, charged on warrant with obtaining money, &c., from Charles Johnston, by means of a valueless cheque, has been arrested by Constable Charles L. Daubney, Lawrence Police, remanded to Arrowtown, and sentenced to six months’ labour. He is identical with Hugh Borland, alias Baldwin, sentenced at Invercargill, on the 4th September, 1883, to two years’ labour for false pretences, and on the 28th March, 1887, to two months’ labour for false pretences. (See Police Gazette , 1885, page 70, and 1887, page 121.)

John Johnstone is charged on warrant (Bench by whom issued not stated) with having, on the Btli November last, at Kaikohe, Bay of Islands, obtained a bank cheque for £4 from George W. S. Patterson by false pretences. Description : Supposed a native of the colony, a gum-digger, twenty-four years of age, sft. 7in. or Bin. high, medium build, darkish sallow complexion, thin and rather long features, light-brown or sandy hair, and small sandy moustache only; when last seen wore dark suit and soft-black hat; larrikin appearance. He was seen on the 23rd February last riding a horse from his parents’ residence at Helensville, in the direction of Kaukapakapa. He obtained the cheque by falsely representing that he had about a ton of kauri gum for sale.

On the Bth or 9th ultimo, at Omahu, Te Arohapa mare, the property of Charles John, Dearie, value about £2O, was

maliciously wounded, supposed with an axe, on one of the hind houghs, from the effects of which she died.

(See Police Gazette, 1889, page 63.)

Ernest Thomas Smith, charged on warrant with embezzling money, at Dunedin, the property of the National Mutual Life Association, is now supposed to be in Sydney, and may be employed in an insurance office there. He may be known to Mr. William Gibb, Manager of the New Zealand National Insurance Company, Sydney. He is further described as having a slight cast in one eye, and being of a talkative disposition.

John O’Connor, alias O’Connell, is charged, on warrant issued by the Waiau Bench, with having, on the 18th ultimo, at Waiau, Amuri, maliciously broken a door with an axe, the property of John Mackay, doing damage to the extent of £l. Description : A native of Dublin, a bootmaker, twenty-six years of age, sft. Gin. high, medium build, fresh complexion, large nose, light-brown hair and fair moustache, a large scar over right eye ; dressed in black-cloth coat and vest, dark-tweed trousers, and soft black-felt hat. He is identical with John O’Connell, described in Police Gazette, 1886, page 65, and 1888, page 204. He left Waiau on the 23rd ultimo by train for Christchurch.

About 5 o’clock on the morning of the 17th ultimo two rails of the pound at Alexandra North, the property of the Alexandra Town Board, were broken, and four head of cattle, which were in it, liberated. A Maori, name unknown, who can neither be described nor identified, was found driving the cattle away, and three of them were taken from him and driven back to the pound.

On the 19th or 20th ultimo, at Bluff Wharf, a fishing-net and a manilla line, the property of Emanuel Vella, were maliciously cut in several places, and damaged to the extent of £5.

About 1 o’clock on the morning of the 26th ultimo the front and sides of the store of Messrs. Wilkie Brothers and Wilson, Cape Foulwind, near Westport, were blown to pieces by dynamite, which was maliciously placed under the building, which was built upon piles about Ift. from the ground. A. piece of fuse about 9ft. long and a pole about the same length were found under the building. The pole reached from the side of the building to where the explosion occurred, and it is supposed that the charge of dynamite was tied to the end of it, and in that way placed under the building, and set fire to by means of the fuse. Two brothers named Balantine and a man named Peebles were sleeping at the time in a back room of the store, and a boy named Stewart in the store, but all of them, fortunately, escaped injury. The building, which was valued for about £IOO, belonged to Jules Simon, of Westport. Goods to the value of about £lO were destroyed.

Matthew Lawrie is charged, on warrant issued by the Warkworth Bench, with having, on the 18th March last, at Omaha, Auckland District, obtained 225 puriri posts, value £5 18s. 6d., from Thomas Felix Ashton by means of a valueless order for £5 15s. 6d., drawn on Messrs. Henderson and Spraggon, Auckland. Description: Supposed Irish, about thirty-eight years of age, sft. tin. high, medium build, darkbrown hair, whiskers and moustache inclined to be sandy; when last seen wore dark coat, dark-check plaid trousers, and white-straw hat with a red-and-blue-ribbon band. At the time he committed this offence he was master of the cutter “ Mahurangi.”

(See Police Gazette, 1888, page 89, and 1889, page 42.)

Edward Donnolly, charged on warrant with obtaining goods from William A. Marriner, at Mount Wesley, Wairoa, by false pretences, has been arrested by Constable Neil McLeod, Dargaville Police, and discharged. The warrant issued by the Dargaville Bench for the arrest of James McCarthy for a similar offence has been cancelled.