Offences Not Otherwise Described.

New Zealand Police Gazette, Volume XV, Issue 11, 3 June 1891, Page 101

Offences Not Otherwise Described.

(See Police Gazette , 1891, page 65.) Re “Ted,” charged withAss^ulferng Hugh Browne: This offender is no doubt Hdentmal with Edward Clarkson, alias Tyson. Gazette, 1881, page 34 ; 1883' 1885, page &e.). He was in Wangaiiui dylifrng'the early part of tlmOyear, having wpr'Ked at S/udholmc’s station, Karioi, and was WCeomp/inicd by Jemima Clarkson, alias Duncan, a well-known Dunedin prostitute, described at page 130 of Police Gazette , 1889. (91/749.)

(See Police Gazette, 1891, page 94.) y Thomas Todd, charged with the larceny as a bailee of George Bell’s saddle and bridle, has been arrested by Constable T. Leitch, Taradale Police. Case dismissed, as accused left the articles at Masterton, to be returned to complainant.

John Ross is charged, on warrant issued by the Wellington Bench, with having, on the 20th April last, at Feilding, obtained from Frederick Bismarck forty-four bead of cattle, value £176, by falsely representing that he was in partnership with Alick Rutridge, of Kairanga, and wanted them to

stock the farm. Description: Supposed English, a cattledealer, about thirty-five years of age, sft. Gin. high, medium build, brown hair, fair beard and moustache, shaved on cheeks ; dressed in grey-tweed sac-suit, trousers strapped. Last seen on or about the Ist ultimo at Palmerston North, and then said he was going to Otaki; was riding a grey horse, and had two dogs with him.

Between 5 and 7.45 p.m. on the 23rd ultimo a sleeper was placed across the line near the Opawa Bridge, on the Picton-Blenheim Railway.

Robert Johns is charged on warrants issued by the Temuka Bench, sentencing him to a month’s labour for using obscene language to William Gibbs on the 3rd ultimo, and to forty-eight hours’ labour in default of paying a fine of £1 for committing a breach of the peace. (For description, see Police Gazette, 1891, page 33.) Dressed in a grey-tweed suit, hard black-felt hat, round crown and flat leaf, wears over eyes or on back of head; a lock of hair down on forehead ; larrikin appearance. He passed through Orari on the 23rd ultimo, and said he was going to the North Island, but may stay at Christchurch or some town en route. Will probably be found in a publichouse on a Saturday night.

Richard George Peacock is charged, on warrant issued by the Collingwood Bench, with having, at Collingwood, at divers times, fraudulently taken and applied to his own use the sums of £ll 45., £l7 17s. 4d., and 155., the moneys of the Collingwood Public Hall Company, of which company he was an officer. Description: English, about thirty-five years of age, sft. Din. or 19in. high, medium build, light blue eyes, sandy complexion, red face, about a month’s growth of whiskers ; generally wears fore-and-aft peak-cap, black knotty - tweed coat, pepper-and-salt coloured trousers; gentlemanly appearance, fond of drink. Offender left on the 10th ultimo for Waitapu, intending, it is believed, to get away in one of the small timber-vessels. He will probably make for the Tasmania silver-mines.