Stealing Otherwise than from the Person or from Dwellings.

New Zealand Police Gazette, Volume XV, Issue 1, 14 January 1891, Page 3

Stealing Otherwise than from the Person or from Dwellings.

Stolen on the 24th ultimo, at about 1 p.m., from the waiting-room of the Mount Eden Railway-station, Auckland, a serge coat, trousers, and vest, and a grey soft-felt hat; value £2; the property of Mary Grey, Waimauku, Helensville. Identifiable. Suspicion attached to a man, name unknown, who accompanied the complainant from the Eden Vine Hotel to the station. Description: About forty years of age, sft. lOin. or llin. high, slight build, fair moustache and small imperial, sandy complexion ; had a small black dog with him. Supposed to have gone in the direction of Henderson gumfields.

Stolen between the 21st and 25th ultimo, from the outhouse of Albert Evans, Brockville, Roslyn, Dunedin, a watercolour painting, “ Mount Sefton covered with Snow,” by T. S. Cousins, gold-mounted, about 2ft. 6in. by 20in., value £10; a black-cloth frock-coat, value £4; an old table-cover, 12ft. by 6ft., value 10s.; an old velvet-pile table-cover, darned in centre, value 10s.; a white-silk bodice, trimmed with silk lace, value £1; two men’s white shirts, buttons at back,

value 10s.; a chemise, trimmed with crotcliet-lace, value 7s. 6d ; a jack-plane, value 10s.; a smoothing-plane, value 55.; two hand-saws, value ss. ; an American axe, value 55.; a small axe, value 2s. 6d; and two large hammers, value 10s. Painting only identifiable.

Stolen on the sth or 6th ultimo, from an unoccupied room at the rear of a butcher’s shop, Mount Albert, Auckland, a gentlemen’s black hand-bag, medium size; value £1; the property of Joseph Gilmour. Identifiable.

Stolen from the Feilding racecourse, on the 27th ultimo, a light-leather double-reined snaffle-bridle, with steel bit, D-shaped buckles with bar in centre ; and the buckle-rein of a double bridle, with nickel-silver bit and bridoon, rein marked by chewing, and one of the check-strap buckles larger than the others; value £1 10s. each. These bridles belong to Messrs. Bull and Scarrow, and were in the custody of John Neary, who took charge of saddle-horses for the day. Identifiable. Suspicion attached to Thomas Robinson and William Ford, living at Palmerston North.

Stolen on the 19tli ultimo, from a tent in a paddock at Surrey Hills, Auckland, during athletic sports, a silverhunting Waltham watch, No. 1690269, A.D. scratched on front case, with double-linked silver albert attached ; value £2 15s. ; the property of Alfred Dickenson.

Between 8 p.m. on the 27th and 2 p.m. on the 28tli ultimo the grand-stand booth on the Hokitika racecourse was broken into, and two boxes of cigars, one bottle of champagne, two bottles of whiskey, and four of colonial wine stolen ; value £1 155.; the property of Robert John Hudson.

(See Police Gazette, 1887, page 153.) Karl Graf, charged with stealing two chisels from J Drysdale’s workshop, Timaru : Warrant has been cancelled

Stolen on the 2nd instant, from the East Town Belt, Timaru, a bullock-hide saddle, short seat, patch on left knee-pad, piece of flannel stitched on left face where lining is broken; value £6; the property of Michael Broghan, Beaconsfield.

Stolen on the 23rd ultimo, from the spring-cart of Robert Blair Denniston, Bath Street, Dunedin, a field-glass, inlaid with black-morocco leather, value £3 55.; a wooden pipe, value Is. ; and a hundred rounds of sporting ammunition, value Bs. 4d. Also, on the 26th ultimo, from complainant’s stable, 23ft. of indiarubber hose, with nozzle attached ; value £2 10s. Hose identifiable.

Stolen on the 29th ultimo, from an office in the yard of Thomas Parnell, wood-dealer, Onehunga, a gentlemen’s dark-silk umbrella, partly worn, crooked handle ; value 10s. Identifiable. Suspicion attached to a man, name unknown, who was seen coming out of the office with it, and can only be described as about fifty years of age, tall, wearing brown clothes, broken-down appearance.

Stolen between 10 p.m. on the 30tli and 3 a.m. on the 31st ultimo, from off a horse in the Presbyterian Church stable, Waitahuna, Dunedin District, a light English-made saddle, partly worn, colonial knee-pads, new gullet-plato, recently lined and stuffed, tree cracked and capped with copper wire ; value £3 ; the property of Malcolm McCorkindale, jun., Murray’s Flat. An old saddle was left on the horse in place of the one stolen.

Stolen between the 18th and 29tli ultimo, from Muddy Creek, near Ophir, Southland District, four greyhound pups, six weeks old, well bred : first, red dog, white ring on neck ; second, red dog, blackish snout; third, black dog, white ring on neck; fourth, black bitch, white ring on neck; value £2O ; the property of James Markey. Identifiable.

Stolen on the 7th instant, from the berth of James Flett, steward on board the s.s. “ Tainui,” at Wellington wharf, a gentlemen’s plain heavy gold ring, J.F. to G.C. on shield ; value £3. Identifiable.