Offences Not Otherwise Described.

New Zealand Police Gazette, Volume XV, Issue 25, 16 December 1891, Page 209

Offences Not Otherwise Described.

Auckland. — Robert Alfred Burgess is charged on warrant with the larceny as a bailee, on the 16th Jiltimo, of a cheque for £10; the property of Janies Description : Supposed English, a fAUveyor, atomftnirty-five years of age, sft. 2in. or Bin. tfigii, madinni build, sallow complexion, light-brown beard whiskefis and moustache worn short, brown hair ; (kepsed in difty brown-tweed sac-suit and hard black-feltffiajp TleJfaVsely represented to Mr. Wade, architect, ChamKry S|seqt, that he was instructed by complainant to call lav theMfdqfte, which was attached to an unaccepted tendernsent by Mi| hands on the same day. Offender then cashed the cheque at the Bank of New Zealand and decamped with the money. May have gone to the gumficlds.

(See Police Gazette, 1891, pages 195 and 203.) Henry John Anderson, charged with deserting from his apprenticeship with George Foster, bootmaker, Auckland, has been arrested by Constable T. White, Huntly Police.

Philadelphia.— 6,ooo dollars reward is offered for the arrest of Gideon W. Marsh, ex-president of the Keystone National Bank, who, with the ex-city treasurer, John Bardsley (now serving fifteen years in prison), pilfered the bank of over one million dollars of city and State moneys. Offender was to have appeared before the United States Commissioner on the 21st May last, but absconded from his bail. Description : About forty-five years of age, weighs from 1801 b. to 2001 b., broad-shouldered, well built, care-worn look, dark-brown hair, blue eyes, dark-brown moustache (may have grown full beard and whiskers), brown face, fair skin, good teeth, first finger on right hand has been injured by a base-ball bat, which makes it slightly crooked, the first joint stiff, and nail inverted towards the little finger; when last seen, on the 27th May, 1891, he wore a brown-derby hat, flat brim, brown- or snuff-coloured overcoat, plaid-check pantaloons, patent-leather shoes with over-gaiters, and carried a small alligator satchel and umbrella ; had in his possession a pair of low shoes, size JBc, with “E. C. Richmond ” stamped on the inside in gilt letters. The above reward is offered by Benjamin Franklin’s detective agency, on behalf of the city authorities and one of the bondsmen. Special inquiries are requested in this colony. Photographs of offender and facsimile of his signature in Commissioner’s Office. (91/1867.)

Wellington. —“ Podge ” Read is charged on warrant with having, on the sth instant, wilfully damaged, to the extent of £3O, a number of windows, glass ornaments, and a piano, in the dwelling of Annie Cunningham, Wingfield Street., Description: English or a colonial, a spieler, twenty-seven or twenty-eight years of age, about sft. bin. high, stout build/ fair complexion, small fair moustache only ; supposed wearing a light-tweed sac-suit, light soft-felt hat, and an imitationgold chain with shark’s tooth pendant.

(See Police Gazette, 1891, pages 147 and 153.) Wellington. —Pc Peter Ross, charged with larceny as a bailee of £IOO, the money of Mary Rita Webb : A reward of £5 is now guaranteed on conviction of the offender.

Wellington.— George Jesser, an inmate of the Kohimarama Industrial School, under license to Mr. Tighe, instructor of the blind, absconded from his employer on the 28th October last, while staying at the Central Hotel. Description : Fourteen years and eight months old, stout build, fresh complexion, dark-brown hair ; probably dressed in dark-tweed suit. If found lie is to be returned to the school. (91/1891.)