Offences Not Otherwise Described.

New Zealand Police Gazette, Volume XV, Issue 13, 1 July 1891, Page 115

Offences Not Otherwise Described.

Sydney Morrison is charged with failing to comply with the conditions of his release under section 9, subsections 2 and 5, of “ The First Offenders’ Probation Act, 188(5.” Description : English, a labourer and sailor, forty-two years of age, sft. Bin. high, medium build, dark complexion, brown hair turning grey, grey eyes, medium nose, heavy dark moustache, “ Rosetta Morrison ” tattooed on right arm, mark of cut on nose, scar on lower lip ; dressed in dirty dark-tweed

suit. Convicted at the Supreme Court, Napier, on the 3rd March, 1891, of larceny as a bailee, sentenced to two years’ t and ordered to pay £2l costs, but has failed to pay the first instalment or report himself. On the 23rd of May last he was discharged from Wanganui Gaol, having been committed for twenty-four hours, in default of fine, for drunkenness. Previously worked in the Momohaki Bush for James Leo, of Waverley, and will most likely ship on board some vessel.

Adelaide. — Bruce E. Middleton is charged on warrant with having, on or about the 25tli May last, embezzled the sum of £25, and a like amount on or about the 3rd ultimo, from Her Majesty’s Government, Public Works Department, of which he was a clerk. Description: About twenty-seven

years of age, sft. 3in. or 4in. high, medium build, fair complexion, hair cut close and parted in centre, slight fair moustache, light eyes, straight nose, square bulldog-looking face, surly expression ; generally wears dark-tweed sac-suit, and silver ring; a prominent South Australian footballplayer ; associates with sporting-men and gamblers; last seen in Adelaide on Bth ultimo. Arrest important. (91/1069).

(See Police Gazette, 1891, page 93.) / Melbourne. —Robert William Heffernan has been arrested by the Police of Perth, Western Australia, for fraudulent bankruptcy. (Vide Victoria Police Gazette, 1891, page 164.)

Carl Miller is charged, on warrant issued by the Dunedin Bench, with the larceny as a bailee at North-east Valley, on the 16th or 17th ultimo, of the following articles belonging to Andis Wickland : Two grey blankets (single), two American axes, a six-quart and a three-quart billy, two tableknives, two forks with buckhorn handles, two enamelled plates, and a pair of spring-balances which weigh up to 251 b.; value £1 7s. 6d. Identifiable. Offender is a native of the colony, a labourer, twenty-three or twenty-four years of age, sft. 6in. or 7in. high, medium build, dark complexion, dark hair, has about a month’s growth of beard all round, heavy moustache, and dark heavy eyebrows; dressed in dark saccoat and vest, dark grev-tweed trousers, hard black-felt hat; smart active appearance. He had permission to sleep in complainant’s hut while working in the bush, and the use of the above articles, which he cleared out with.

(See Police Gazette, 1891, pages 101 and 107.)

John Ross, charged with obtaining cattle from Frederick Bismarck by false pretences, has been arrested at Eketahuna by Constabie M. Roche, and remanded to Feilding.

Richard Harrison is charged on warrant with having, at about 3 a.m., on the 18th April last, at Doric, near Asburton, committed a rape on Eleanor Worne. Description: A native V of the North of Ireland, a farmer, twenty-six or twenty-eighlr years of age, sft. lOin. or llin. high, stout square build, fresh complexion, dark hair, side-whiskers and moustache; dressed in black sac-coat and vest, and light-tweed trousers, and tweed cap with fore-and-aft peak ; sometimes wears a hard black hat; respectable appearance. Supposed gone to Christchurch.

James Smith is charged on warrant with cruelty to ahorse n/ belonging to Norbury and Trevor, Contractors, at Porirua, on the 15th ultimo. Description : About twenty-three years / of age, sft. lOin. high, slight build, slight fair moustache, fair complexion, blue eyes, rather bloodshot; dressed in light- /

tweed sac-coat, dark-tweed trousers, soft light-felt hat, and lace-up boots. It is supposed he left for Otaki to seek employment at flax-mills. Carried a swag made up in a sack. -

During the night of the 13th ultimo three panes of glass in the shop-window of Phenix Briggs, Adelaide Road, Wellington, were maliciously broken, Damage, £3.

Between 5 p.m. on the 9th and 8 a.m. on the 10th instant, about two chains of four-railed fencing on the farm of Benjamin Yates, Ruatangata, near Kamo, Auckland District, were maliciously cut down and damaged to the value of £l. John and Edgar Hodgson, living in the vicinity, suspected.

Supposed to have been maliciously cut adrift at the wharf, Mercury Bay, Auckland District, during the night of the 18th ultimo, an open boat, 20ft. long, dirty reddish paint outside ; value £2O ; the property of the Northern Steam Shipping Company. Identifiable.

During the night of the 26th May last, a hand-cart belonging to R. and E. Tingey, Wanganui, was maliciously thrown into the river and damaged to the extent of £3 7s. 6d.

C. W. Leslie (name may be fictitous) is charged, on warrant issued by the Rakaia Bench, with having on the 15th May last, at Rakaia, obtained a sum of 95., by false representations, from Arthur Makeig, Clerk of Road Board. Description : Supposed an American, about forty years of age, sft. 9in. or lOin. high, stout build, fresh complexion, dark hair beard and whiskers and moustache, turning grey, a few pimples on face; dressed in dark-tweed suit, and hard black hat. He left by train for Christchurch on the 19th of the same month, and had a large fawn bull-and-mastiff slut, which, if he has shipped for any of the Australian colonies, he will probably have taken with him. Offender stated he was an agent for the American Celluloid Portrait Company, Dunedin, and obtained the amount in advance for photographs which he promised would be sent to complainant in sixteen days, but never came. No such company can be found in existence. There are numerous charges against him.