Offences Not Otherwise Described.

New Zealand Police Gazette, Volume XIII, Issue 12, 5 June 1889, Page 105

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 April last. Description : A native of the County Kerry, a labourer, thirty-one years of age, sft. 7-Jin. 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.

John Johnstone is charged on warrant (Bench by whom issued not stated) with having, on the Bth 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 Hclensvillo, in the direction of Kaukapakapa. ITe obtained the cheque by falsely representing that he had about a ton of kauri gum for sale.

Matthew Laweie is charged, on warrant issued by the Warkwoith 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. fin. 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.”

Petee Bireell 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. 9m. 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. Ho was formerly in the Nelson Police. He was seen in Timaru on the morning of the stli ultimo. He will endeavour to leave the colony.

John W. Watson is charged, on warrant issued by the Wellington Bench, with having, on the 4th ultimo, at Wellington, obtained £2 from George W. Smart by false pretences. Description : English, a clerk, about thirty years of age, sft. sin. high, 1 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.

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, sft. 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, and converted the money to his own use. His defalcations amount to about £3OO. He left Dunedin on the 10th ultimo as a steerage passenger by the steamer “ Wairarapa ” for Melbourne, under the name of Easton, and expressed his intention of going thence to Sydney. He is known to Albert Price, of the New Zealand Insurance Office, Melbourne. He may try to leave for San Francisco.

About 1.15 a.m. on the 2nd ultimo, at Maungakaramea, Bay of Islands District, a draught gelding, value £5, the property of Frederick J. Snell, was maliciously fired at and wounded with a bullet, from the effects of which the animal died.

On the 4th ultimo a letter was received by a Mr. Tennet, who lives with his uncle, George Kerr, at Maungakaramea, Bay of Islands District, warning him to leave Kerr’s house, as the latter had not long to live on account of his misdeeds in impounding his neighbours’ cattle, and it was not wished to murder him (Tennet) in mistake for Kerr.

Between 5 p.m. on the 13th and 8 a.m. on the 14tli ultimo a red-and-white heifer, about seven months old, which was impounded on the 10th ultimo in the pound of Frederick Cowern, at Manaia, was rescued from the pound.

Leonard Wilson is charged, on warrant issued by the Danevirke Bench, with having, on the 14th ultimo, at Danevirke, obtained £lO from James Buck by means of a valueless cheque. Description : English, a lawyers’ clerk, thirty - three or thirty - four years of age, sft. 9in. or 10in. high, slight build, very round shoulders, sallow complexion, top of nose very red, light-brown hair ; may be wearing a brown-tweed suit and hard black-felt hat; addicted to drink and gambling. He acted as agent at Danevirke for Mr. Loughnan, solicitor, Waipawa. He left Danevirke on the 16th ultimo for Wellington, and is supposed to have gone to Melbourne or Sydney. Mr. Sandilands, solicitor, Melbourne, is his father-in-law. There are other charges pending against him.

(See Police Gazette, 1889, page 27.) George W. Boilean, charged on warrant with embezzling money the property of his employers, Messrs. Lyons and McEwen, has been arrested by the Melbourne Police, remanded to Sydney, and sentenced to nine months’ labour.