Extract from Victoria Police Gazette.

New Zealand Police Gazette, Volume XV, Issue 12, 17 June 1891, Page 111

Extract from Victoria Police Gazette.

(From Gazette, 1891, page 89.) George Henderson and a man, name unknown, are charged on warrants with conspiring to defraud George H. T. Adams, gardener, 169, Franklin Street, Melbourne, of £260, on the 13th instant. Description: First, about thirty-four years of age, about sft. 6in. high, fair complexion, fair moustache, beard of about four days’ growth ; wore a grey-tweed suit and black-felt hat. Second, about thirty-four or thirtyfive years of age, sft. Bin. high, medium build, dark complexion, dark hair, dark beard whiskers and moustache cut short; wore black sac-coat, bluish-plaid-tweed trousers, and black-felt hat. Offender, Henderson, met the complainant in Bourke Street, and introduced himself as a squatter from New South Wales in search of a trustworthy man to manage a station. Henderson afterwards brought complainant to the Flower Hotel, Drummond Street, Carlton, where they met the second offender. The “ paper-trick ” was introduced, and in a little time complainant was swindled out of £260. The second offender said he recently came from South Africa.— O. 2228, 15th March, 1891. [See extract from New South W T ales Police Gazette above. (91/1024.)]

By Authority: George Didsburv. Government Printer, Wellington,—lß9l.

1 Complexion. Where Gaol. Name, j Where tried. When. Offence. Sentence. Native of Trade Born. bp *3 X Hair. Eyes. Nose. Mouth. Photographed, and Date. Remarks and Previous Convictions. J It.in. Auckland ... Thomas Auckland Mar. 26, iSqi habitual drunkenness 2 months’ labour N. Zealand labourer ... 1857 5 4! swarthy dark brown blue medium medium 4 p.c. TS and star on left thumb. Auckland .. William Annear, alias Dargaville ... Feb. 27, 1891 indecent exposure ... 3 months’ labour England ... bushman ... 1839 5 3i swarthy light brown dk. blue medium medium 12 p.c. (See Police Gazette, 189©, page 85.) Davis , alias Williams, alias Fisher, alias RadAuckland ... William Burns Auckland Aug. 4. 1890 begging 12 months’ labour England ... labourer ... 1815 S 6i sallow grey almond medium medium Auckland, 29.3.88 !7 p.c. Auckland ... David .Mills Auckland May 23, 1891 drunkenness obscene language 48 hours’labour 7 days’ labour Ireland 1844 5 74 sallow dark brown grey medium medium 3! p.c. (concurrent) prostitute ... medium medium Auckland ... Annie Hooker, alias Auckland May 2, 1891 being a common pros1 month’s labour Auckland ... 1807 lair dark brown grey I p.c. Nathaniel, alias Huttitute medium 28 p.c. Scar in left groin; cupped on Auckland .. Michael Ryan Auckland Mar. 3,1891 drunkenness 14 days’labour Ireland labourer ... 1829 S 83 sallow grey blue medium assaulting police 3 months' labour right side. (concurrent) medium medium lO p.c. Auckland ... Annie Robertson Auckland May 4, 189: drunkenness 48 hours’labour Scotland ... 1850 5 o4 ruddy brown, turngrey assaulting police 1 month’s labour ing grey medium Scar on right cheek, which is swollen. Auckland ... lames Ryan Auckland May 28, 1891 stowaway 20s., or 7 days’ labour 20s., or 7 days’ labour Ireland bootmaker 1836 S zl fresh black brown medium Auckland ... Janies White Auckland May 28, 1891 stowaway Brisbane ... bootmaker 1859 5 31 fresh black grey medium medium Fame; crosses and three stars on left arm ; anchor, JPH, and pierced heart on right arm ; rings on third fingers. Little finger of left hand crippled; left wrist been broken. Gone to Awanui. Auckland ... Maaka Eru Rangiwaha Gisborne Aug. 11,1S90 forgery 12 months’ labour N. Zealand labourer ... 1871 5 C3 copper black dark br. broad medium Auckland ... Rewiti Rangitere Gisborne Aug. 11,1890 horse-stealing 12 months’ labour N. Zealand labourer ... i860 5 44 copper black dark br. flat large Burn-scar on top of head; two boil-scars under t ight jaw ; long scar on right leg; left hip injured. Gone to Awanui. Auckland ... Henry Cook, alias john Waipu May 6, 1891 larceny as a bailee ... 1 month's labour England ... labourer ... 1851 5 5 swarthy light brown blue large medium Auckland, 30.4.91 3 p.c. (See Police Gazette, 1S89, page 79, medium and i£oi, page 98.) Auckland ... Mar. 7,1891 obscene language 3 months’ labour N. Zealand prostitute ... 1855 S 4 dark black hazel broad Gone to Thames. N.Plymouth Margaret Marsh N. Plymouth Feb. 13, 1891 habitual drunkenness vagrancy 14 days’ labour 3 months’ labour Scotland ... 1838 4 84 fair light brown brown medium medium ... Repeatedly convicted. Mole on each cheek; two dots on left forearm ; scar on right knee; two scars N. Plymouth Forrest Edwin Florey ... N. Plymouth April 7,1891 larceny 2 months’ labour England ... labourer ... 1S75 S 5 fair light brown grey long medium on left knee. Napier Sopluts ( lnisti Twist!... Napier May 18,1891 vagrancy 14 days’iabour Denmark ... labourer ... 1851 5 6 fair brown blue, large medium 1 p.c. (See Police Gazette, 1891, page 89.) Napier Otto Peters Napier Mar. 30, 1891 assault 2 months’ labour Germany ... ship’s cook... 1 8.35 S 8 sallow brown blue medium medium Anchor and OP on left hand; slight Mar. 4,1891 larceny 3 months’ labour Melbourne butcher 1843 5 9i fair grey blue large large t p.c. (See Police Gazette, i£8o, page 24.) John Bourke O’Brien ... William Banks May 21, 1891 habitual drunkenness 43s., or 14 days’ labour Ireland shoemaker... 1833 5 pale sallow grey grey large medium Repea tedly convicted. Wanganui Palmerston Mar. 30, 1S91 refusing to quit 14 davs’ labour Ireland ... labourer ... 1840 5 6 grey hazel large medium Scaron left calf; white spot under right North licensed premises assault 2 months’ labour Mar. 18, 1890 breaking and entering (concurrent) 18 months’ labour America ... engineer ... 185G 5 'I fresh dark brown hazel large medium Well’n, 14.6.90 Five dots on left hard. Gone to Oamaru. Wellington Thomas'l.ong Napier Nov. 26, 1890 drunkenness 48 hours’labour Ireland labourer ... 1839 5 8 fair fair blue medium medium Sereral p.c. Crucifix on right arm. obscene language 3 months labour resisting police 3 months’ labour Wellington Timothy Horan, alias Wellington ... Feb. 26,1891 vagrancy (cumulative) 3 months’ labour Ireland labourer ... 1856 5 - 6i swarthy brown blue medium medium Several p.c. Scars on nose and forehead. Moran May 12, 1891 wilful damage 14 days’labour England ... sailor 1846 5 5 sallow brown grey crooked medium Cut on right wrist; nose broken. Wellington James Mackie Wellington ... April 30,1891 failing to support his children 1 month’s imprisonment in default of Scotland ... tailor 185s 5 63 ruddy red hazel medium medium 3 P-c. Wellington Samuel Allen Cooper ... Wellington ... May 25,1891 obscene language resisting police sureties 7 days’labour 48 hours’ labour Nova Scotia sailor 1S71 5 84 fair light brown grey large medium American coat-of-arms on right arm; flags on left arm. Wellington Charles Stone Wellington ... June 1,1891 rape (concurrent) bill ignored England ... painter 1^54 5 8 fair brown grey medium medium Large scar above the knee; marks on left Wellington James Cleary Wellington ... June ), 1891 larceny acquitted at S. C. Scotland ... fireman 1868 5 94 fresh brown grey large medium Well’11, 30.5.91 H, flag, cross, and several indistinct marks on left arm; rings on three Well’n, 30.5.91 WeU'n, 30.5.91 fingers of left hand. Wellington Wellington Michael Patrick Cronin Wellington ... June 1,1891 Tune 1,1891 larceny larceny acquitted at S. C. bill ignored Ireland Invercargill fireman cooper 1868 1864 5 6 S 10 fair fair light brown brown It. grey blue large medium medium medium Dot on right arm ; two dots on left arm. Scar on left wrist and thumb. Mole under left arm. Several p.c. June 1,1891 burglary acquitted at S. C. England ... cook 1863 S 44 fair fair grey large medium Wellington Frederick Arnold ... Wellington ... Mar. 3. 1891 endeavouring to pass tobacco to a prisoner obscene language 3 months’ labour 3 months’ labour N. Zealand labourer ... 1862 5 5 dark dark grey large medium (concurrent)

RETURN OF PRISONERS REPORTED AS DISCHARGED FROM GAOLS DURING THE FORTNIGHT ENDED 6th JUNE, 1891.

Gao!. Name. Where tried. When. Offence. 1 Sentence. ■ Native of f Trade. Born. 1 Height Complexion. Hair. Eyes. Nose. Mouth. Where Photographed, and Date. Remarks and Previous Convictions. Wellington John Smiler Wellington ... Mar. 3, 1891 larceny 3 months’ labour England ... fireman iSC'4 ft. in. S 3l lair fair grey crooked medium Tattoo rings and several marks on left hand. Wellington William John SimWellington ... May 2.t, 1S91 assault 14 days’ labour England ... clerk 1830 5 81 fresh light brown It. hazel large large Lyttelton Several p.c. (See Police Gazette, 1891, roonds, alias Nicholls pages 2i and 99.) Wellington Agnes Ramsay Wellington ... April 8, iSgt larceny 2 months’ labour Ireland prostitute ... >8.13 5 4 fair fair grey medium large Several p.c. Wellington Sarah Aldridge Wellington ... April 8, -.891 larceny 2 months’ labour Australia ... prostitute ... 1S42 5 sallow black blue medium medium large Westport ... William Martin Westport May 22, 1891 drunkenness and re7 days labour England ... miner 1803 8 da rk dark brown blue large sisting police medium Reefton rhomas Wilson Reefton April 21, 1S91 illegally on premises... 7 days’ labour 14 days’labour Belfast labourer .. 1864 5 10 fair grey medium Reefton Rdward Nicholas Reefton May 4, i8<j[ habitual drunkenness England ... miner '8.39 5 10 bur blue medium medium 6 p.c. Greyrnouth Alfred Brown Christchurch Dec. 15, 1890 disobeying an order of Court horse-stealing 4 weeks’ labour England ... labourer ... 1855 5 83 fair light brown grey large medium Union Jack on right aim. Lyttelton .. George Pearce, alias Wellington ... Oct. s, 1S85 6 years’ penal serviEngland ... painter 1843 2 fresh brown grey small small, Wellington Several p.c. Collar-bones and legs have Rdward Price, alias Gough, alias Williams tude oblique been broken. Cut on each groin. Lyttelton ... William Bingley Lyttelton May 12,1891 disobedience of orders 14 days’ labour London fireman 1851 6 0 sallow brown, turnblue medium. medium Lyttelton ... on board ship ing grey Elizabeth Mary Cronin, Christchurch May 14,1891 soliciting prostitution 14 days’labour Co. Limerick prostitute ... 1857 5 dark brown grey large medium II p.c. alias McKenna Flag on right arm; MB above AB on Lyttelton ... John Ryan, alias Wilson Rakaia May 2i,tS9i obscene language 7 days’ labour Glasgow ... seaman 1866 S 5i fresh dark brown It. blue medium medium right hand; Won left arm; J on left hand. 1 p.c. Lyttelton .. William King Christchurch May 26,1890 larceny 15 months’ labour 2 months’ labour Kent butcher 1870 - 81 fresh dark brown grey medium medium Lyttelton ... Daniel Ryan Ashburton ... April 6,1891 vagrancy Dublin labourer ... 1832 5 i'i dark blue broken medium Lyttelton, 4.6.91 Several p.c. Cross, &c., on breast; crucifix and flag on right arm; brig, wreath, &c., on left arm; bracelet on right wrist; brig on right calf. 1 p.c. Bracelet on each wrist. Lyttelton ... James Reilly, alias Lyttelton May 23, 1891 larceny 14 days’labour Liverpool ... seaman 18.34 3 4 fair sand ' blue medium medium Simpson 1 p.c. Scar on left eye and right arm. Lyttelton ... Frederick Snow Lyttelton May 23, 1891 larceny 14 days’ labour Oxford cook tSGi 5 7l dark dark brown thick, turned up large 1 p.c. Upper front tooth out. riinaru Henry Stapley Timaru Aptil 28, 1S91 failing to support his family obscene language 28 days’labour England ... engineer ... 1S5S 5 -4 fresh brown brown medium medium Titnaru Cecil Charles Frodsham Timaru May 8, 189: 30 days’labour Isle of Wight cabinet1854 6 2 fair fair blue medium medium Oamaru Reilly maker John Mannix Oamaru May 26, 1891 larceny 3 months’ probation... Ireland labourer ... 1873 - fresh brow n blue medium medium 4 P.c. (See Police Gazette, page 00.' Cast Oamaru ... Annie Charlton, alias Oamaru June 2, 1891 larceny 5 days’labour Tasmania ... cook 1848 5 3 sallow grey blue medium medium Annie l'ait in left eye; burn on left side of neck. Clyde James Baker Cromwell May 8,1S91 assault £1 and costs, or 14 Ireland groom 1869 5 8fiorid. reddish bin. grey thin, high medium Small scar over left eye; scar on right Dunedin ... h3nd round thumb. Fredrick alias Alfred Holmes Palmer Ellen Keegan Lawrence April 8, tSpi larceny 2 months’ labour N. Zealand labourer ... 1874 5 <5i swarthy black brown broad large 1 p.c. Top off second finger of left hand. Dunedin ... Oamaru April 29, 1891 disorderly conduct ... 1 month's labour Scotland ... prostitute ... 1852 5 0 fresh brown grey large medium 2 p.c. Dunedin ... Sarah Lynch, alias Dunedin May 16,1891 assault £3 7s. t or 10 days’ Ireland 1856 4 9 sallow dark brown grey medium medium Dunedin ... McEwen, alias Covven imprisonment 14 days’labour Thomas McCarthy Dunedin May 22,189: disobeying an order of Auckland ... labourer ... 1854 81 fresh dark, turning blue large medium Dunedin ... Henry Johnston, alias Dunedin Mar. 31,1891 Court false pretences (2 1 month's labour on N. Zealand baker 1872 Ql dark grey dark brown hazel medium medium I p.c. I nvercargill John 1 aylor, alias James Stewart charges) each (cumulative) Several p.c. Female figure, American John Scott Invercargill... May 26, 1891 breaking a window ... 48 hours’ labour Scotland ... seaman 1831 Cl fresh light brown blue large medium In’cargill, 28.5.91 drunkenness flag, bracelet, and emblem on right (cumulative) arm ; crucifix and bracelet on left arm. Gisborne .,. Alexander Muir Gisborne May 19,1891 indecency 14 days’ labour Scotland ... clerk 183s 5 10 sallow dark,turning grey grey medium medium

RETURN OF PRISONERS REPORTED AS DISCHARGED, ETC. — continued.