Housebreaking, Stealing from the Person and from Dwellings.

New Zealand Police Gazette, Volume XIV, Issue 23, 5 November 1890, Page 207

Housebreaking, Stealing from the Person and from Dwellings.

(See Police Gazette, 1890, page 142.) Alexander S. Wilson has found the watch and chain reported stolen; they were lost in the bush.

Stolen at 11 a.m. on the 15th ultimo, from the dwelling of George Lindsay, Waipukurau, Hawke’s Bay, a small American clock, little larger than a watch, out of repair; value 2s. Gd. Identification doubtful. Suspicion attached to Frederick Lyness, who called at the house and obtained food. (For description see Police Gazette, 1889, page 107.) Wore dark-tweed hat, brown-tweed coat, much too large for him, moleskin trousers, and light shoes ; reddish beard whiskers and moustache.

Between 11 p.m. of the 18th and 8 a.m. of the 19th ultimo the butcher’s shop of Edwin Cicero Berry, Tuam Street and Nursery Road, Linwood, Christchurch, was broken into, and five sides of bacon (three of them with hams), a shoulder-piece, and an unsmoked ham, weight 351 b., stolen ; value £l6 ss. Gd. Supposed identifiable. Suspicion attached to Henry Jones and Charles Wood, alias Charles Stanton Wedge. (For descriptions see Police Gazette, 1890, pages 73 and 171.) They left Lyttelton by the s.s. “ Brunner ” on the 20th ultimo for Westport, and the bacon may be consigned to one of them there.

Between G p.m. on the 9th and 8.30 a.m. on the 10th ultimo the shop of Parker and Tribe, drapers, Cashel Street, Christchurch, was broken into, and about 10s. in sixpences, threepenny-pieces, and coppers stolen. Entrance effected by prising open the door, which was badv secured.

Two men, names unknown, are charged with having, on the 4th ultimo, at 10.15 p.m., near the Mount Eden Bridge, Auckland, stolen from the person of Henry Turk, a Waterbury watch, no number, owner’s name on back, a wooden pipe marked HT, a pocket-knife, and 4s. in silver; total value 19s. Identifiable, except silver. One of the offenders is about twenty-two years of age, about sft. 6in. high, slight build, clean-shaved except moustache ; dressed in light-grey clothes and black hat; speaks a little Maori. Of the other no description can be given. Complainant, who was the worse of liquor, states that one of them threw him down and took the property while the other looked on; he could not identify either.

Stolen at 7.30 p.m. on the 14tli ultimo, from the diningroom at Connor’s boardinghouse, Custom Street, Auckland, a bundle containing a coloured-cotton handkerchief, an old black frock-coat, and a pair of white-cotton socks; value 55.; the property of John Hughes. Identifiable. Suspicion attached to a man who stayed at the house. Description : Irish, about fifty years of age, sfc. 7£in. high, medium build, fair complexion, fair hair whiskers beard and moustache turning grey; dressed in black frock-coat and vest, dark trousers, and black-felt hat. Identifiable.

Stolen at 8 p.m. on the 14th ultimo, from outside of Lewis L. Levy’s shop, Cook Street, Auckland, a new shoetrunk, American make, covered with brownish paper and lined with white and blue paper, bound with black-iron hoops and w'ooden laths; value 10s. Supposed identifiable.

Stolen at 11.30 a.m. on the 23rd ultimo, from the person of Maria Griffiths, while attending an auction at the Direct Importing Company’s shop, Queen Street, Auckland, an old common black-leather purse with steel mounting, fastened with two steel nobs, leather much worn at the rivets, containing two £1 notes, bank and numbers unknown, one or two shillings in silver, and a few coppers. Purse identifiable.

Stolen between 9 a.m. and 12.15 p.m. on the 24th ultimo* from an outhouse at Babylon, near Helensville, 19s. 9d.» consisting of seven half-crowns, a florin, and three pence; also a new black soft-felt hat, size 6£, a piece of “Chambers’s Journal ” under the band; value 4s. 6d.; the property of Robert George Chiplin. Hat identifiable. Suspicion attached to George Mitchell, who occupied the premises with complainant. Description: Supposed a native of the colony, about twenty years of age, sft. 7in. or Bin. high, medium build, fair complexion, small moustache only; dressed in dark-tweed clothes and black soft-felt hat. Supposed gone to Auckland, and usually boards at Ah Chee’s, Queen Street.

Stolen at about 10 a.m. on the 13th ultimo, from a cupboard in the bar-parlour of Philip Barnes, Cambridge Hotel, Cambridge Terrace, Wellington, a cash-box containing about £37 in notes, gold, and silver, a cheque for £7 11s. 6d., another for £l, and a bunch of keys; box, first-named cheque, and keys recovered, having been found near the premises. The missing cheque was drawn by Charles Mclntyre on the Bank of New Zealand, Te Aro, in favour of Chirnside, and is identifiable. Suspicion attached to John McGuire, alias Baker, and William Anderson, alias George Morgan, two well-known thieves, who were in the hotel at the time. (For their descriptions see Police Gazette, 1890, pages 32 and 197 respectively.)

Between 9.30 a.m. and 11.40 a.m. on the 29th ultimo the shop of Sun Lee, Riddiford Street, Wellington, was broken into, and £2 in silver and coppers stolen. Entrance gained through a back window left open.

Stolen between 3 p.m. and 4 p.m. on the 28th ultimo, from the person of Annie Cole, while attending the sports, at Newtown Park, Wellington, a brown-leather purse, two compartments, and steel clasp, containing 12s. 6d. in silver, and an art union ticket, No. 1553. Purse and ticket identifiable.

Stolen between 5 p.m. on the 28th and 8 a.m. on the 29th ultimo, from the verandah of Harold Brooke, Roxburgh Street, Wellington, a nearly-new English saddle, flaps a little worn inside, twisted green-hide girth, no stirrupleathers ; value £5. Identifiable.

Between 10 p.m. on the 26th and G a.m. on the 27th ultimo the dyeing establishment of William Edgar, Richmond, Auckland, was broken into, and a pepper-and-salt grey Scotch tweed sac-coat, which had recently been cleaned, stolen ; value £2. Identifiable.

Stolen between 1 and 4 p.m. on the 27th ultimo, from outside of the shop of John McLandress, Princes Street,

Dunedin, a pair of ladies’ strong lace-up boots, size 4, with heel- and toe-plates ; value 13s. Identifiable.

Stolen between 11 a.m. and 1 p.m. on the 22nd ultimo, from the dwelling of John Power, Coalbrookdale, near Denniston, a Waterbury watch, number (if any) not known, brown dial, value 13s. 6d.; and a silver chain, curb-link pattern, bar and swivel missing, value £l. Identifiable. The dwelling is also occupied by ten other men employed in the coal-mine.

Stolen between 11 p.m. on the 30th and 8 p.m. on the 31st ultimo, from the bedroom of William Fleet, John Street, Wellington, an open-face silver English lever watch, No. 10806, fits into a case same as a verge watch, brass hands; value £7. Identifiable.