Deserting Wives and Families, &c.

New Zealand Police Gazette, Volume XVI, Issue 16, 10 August 1892, Page 129

Deserting Wives and Families, &c.

Wellington. —Ernest Calvert Wilkinson /is charged on warrant of commitment to Reefton Gaol fpf disobeying an order of the Resident Magistrate’s jSburt/maJe on the sth January, ISBS, to pay 7s. 6j. a woek| towafWs tie support of each of his two children, j Description: English, a clerk, thirty-five years of age, sft. 9in. high, medium build, fair hair and complexion, hazel- eyes, left wrist has been broken. Supposed to have gone to Nelson. ITe was £l9 10s. in arrear up to the 21st March last.

Palmerston Styles is charges on warrant of commitmeii/’fe/JvangaAui Gaol, in defaijt of paying £9 for Description : A bootma«r«*wut sfw4ml IpLyffljpnjj leg shorter than tho other, us/®a pmtcMwwk m#iisEaciidTtnly ; usually wears a dark-bjmvihvltweed jfuand loft tweed hat. Will probably makelpr Wellington or Warrganui.

Napier. —Robert Loosemore Williams is charged on warrant with deserting his wife, Agnes Sophia, since the 30th ultimo. Description : A natiytpd)/ /Napier, an ironmonger, thirty-two years of age, about high, medium build, dark complexion, iofumrcii, Jblue eyes, brown hair beard whiskers and marsilache: usuk\ly wears a dark-tweed suit and hard who has been living apart from his wifaiefr sonVeWeirs, paid her a weekly allowance up to aboutaiortniglibLprqvious to the above-mentioned date, and has not been* aeon since. It is said he has gone to San Francisco. PhJtlgflateh) at the Police Office, Napier.

(See Police Gazette, 1891, pages 181 and 189, and 1892, page 44.) Thames.— Thomas Ross, charged with wife-desertion, has been arrested by Constable F. A. Moore, Kamo Police, and remanded.

Christchurch. —James Darnell is charged on warrant with failing to supply his wife, Sophy Darnell, with adequate means of support, since the 4th February last. Description: English, a storeman, thirty-eight years of age, sft. s|in. high, slight build, fresh complexion, black hair, brown eyes, dark side whiskers and moustache, chin usually shaved, an upper front tooth out, scar on back. (See also Police Gazette, 189 d, page 205.) He went to the North Island in January last.