Offences Not Otherwise Described.

New Zealand Police Gazette, Volume XIII, Issue 11, 22 May 1889, Page 93

Offences Not Otherwise Described.

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. 7Jin. 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. (Sec Police Gazette, ISB9, page 35.) lie obtained goods from Mr. Smyth by means of the forged order.

John Johnstone is charged on warrant (Bench by whom issued not stated) with having, on the Bth November last, at Kaikolie, 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 Sin. 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.

(See Police Gazette, 1889, page 84.)

John O’Connor, alias O’Connell, charged on warrant with maliciously breaking a door at Waiau, the property of John Mackay, has been arrested by Detective John M. Walker, Dunedin Police, and fined ss. and ordered to pay £1 for damages.

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. 7m. 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.”

Peter Birbell is charged, on two warrants issued by the Timaru Bench, with having, on the 7th June last, at Timaru, while acting as accountant to the Deputy Official Assignee, forged two receipts and acquittances for £385 and £l2 11s. 3d. respectively, with intent to defraud the Government. Description: Scotch, an accountant, about sixty years of age, sft. 9in. or lOin. high, medium build, slightly stooped, fresh complexion, very grey hair beard whiskers and moustache, all worn short; may be dressed in a grey or greyish-brown tweed sac-suit. He was formerly in the Nelson Police. He was seen in Timaru on the morning of the stli instant. He will endeavour to leave the colony.

In April last, at Pukekohe, the hair was maliciously cut off the tails of four horses ; the property of John Brown.

John W. Watson is charged, on warrant issued by the Wellington Bench, with having, on the 4th instant, at Wellington, obtained £2 from George W. Smart by false pretences. Description : English, a clerk, about thirty years of age, sft. sin. high, fair hair and complexion, sandy beard whiskers and moustache ; dressed in dark clothes and hard black-felt hat. Offender obtained the money on the duplicate of an order on the New Zealand Shipping Company for £lO, the original of which had been previously cashed by him. He is supposed to have gone to Foxton, and is said to be known to a man named Rogers, who owns a flax-mill there.

On the 2Gth ultimo, at Hayse’s Terrace, near Kumara, the water-gauge at the dam of the gold-mining claim of Louis Dimante and party was maliciously raised, and the water let

run to waste, thereby occasioning loss and damage to the extent of £2O.

Between 1 and 8 a.m. on the 11th instant, at Hawera, an attempt was made to wash off the paint ox the sign and verandah-posts of the shop of Isaac Bernard Mendelson, thereby doing damage to the extent of £1

On the 4th or sth instant, at Nine-mile Beach, Charleston, six well-bred hens, value 18s., the property of Richard McHerron, were maliciously poisoned.

(See Police Gazette, 1884, page 189, and 1885, page 55.)

The warrant issued by the Oamaru Bench for the arrest of D. C. Monteith, for obtaining the sum of £1 from Bernard Delargy by false pretences, has been cancelled, owing to one of the principal witnesses having left the colony.

About 10.30 p.m. on the Bth instant three large panes of glass, value 3s. each, were maliciously broken in the windows of the store of John IT. Graham, at Huntly, Tauranga District.

Thomas Easton Waugh is charged, on warrant issued by the Dunedin Bench, with having, on the 21st day of July last, at Dunedin, embezzled the sum of £54, the property of the Government. Description : A native of Victoria, a clerk, twenty-six years of age, sfb. 7in. high, slight build, sallow complexion, thin features, sharp prominent nose, dark-brown hair, and small light-brown moustache and side whiskers; generally wears blue-serge sac-suit and hard black-felt hat with low crown. While teller in the Post Office Savings Bank, Dunedin, he forged a depositor’s application for a new bank-book, which he obtained, and then forged the depositor’s signature to a receipt for the sum of £54, aixd converted the money to his own use. His defalcations amount to about £3OO. He left Dunedin on the 10th instant by the steamer “ Wairarapa ” for Melbourne. He is known to Albert Price, of the New Zealand Insurance Office, Melbourne.