Extract from Victoria Police Gazette.

New Zealand Police Gazette, Volume XVII, Issue 15, 26 July 1893, Page 122

Extract from Victoria Police Gazette.

(From Gazette, 1893, page 194.)

Horace James Avis is charged, on warrant, with larceny as a bailee of a quantity of jewellery, value £70 —viz., 19 gold brooches ; 4 gold brooches, set with opals; 20silver brooches; 12 silver letter-brooches ; 2 silver cuff-brooches; 2 jet brooches ; 14 gold pins ; 3 enamel pins; 3 pearl pins ; 5 silver pins; 3 Canadian imitation-gold sovereign-purses; 4 Canadian imitation-gold medals; 4 Canadian imitation-gold lockets; 2 Canadian imitation-gold seals ; 3 Canadian imita-tion-gold ladies’ alberts; 2 Canadian imitation-gold curbchain bangles; 2 Canadian imitation-gold tandem alberts; a dozen Canadian imitation-gold single alberts ; 4 Canadian imitation-gold double alberts; 2 Canadian imitation-gold swivels; 5 albo imitation-silver medals ; 2 albo imitationsilver lockets; 5 albo imitation-silver alberts; an albo imita-tion-silver ladies’ albert; 4 albo imitation-silver swivels; 2 pairs of silver sleeve-links; 5 silver Birch keys for watches; 2 silver thimbles; 2 silver alberts; a silver necklet, about fin. wide, and locket, engraved ; a ladies’ silver albert; 2 pairs of gold sleeve-links; 7 gold rings (three signet and four ladies’ dress-rings) ; 2 Triomphe nickel watches, Nos. 67187 and 5660 S ; a silver open-faced Rotherham watch, No. 61447 ; an open-faced ladies’ silver watch, No. 5923; a ladies’ silver hunting Geneva watch, No. 28869; a ladies’ gold hunting watch, No. 63353; a gold necklet, about Jin. wide ; a ladies’ gold albert; a gold locket, with sapphires and pearls ; a gold bracelet, set with two amethyst stones; a bunch of rings for fitting ; 31 gold, silver, pearl, and carbon studs ; a moroccoleather travelling-case, with four drawers, one false ; and a bracelet-case —the property of John Nicholls, insurance agent, 279, Bourke-street, Melbourne, at Beeac, on the Ist instant. Description: English, about twenty-four years of age, sft. 7in. high, pale face, light-brown hair, no hair on face ; wore light Chesterfield overcoat with light-brown velvet collar, dark coat and vest, light slate-coloured pants, and light-brown boxer hat. Left Colac on the Ist instant for Melbourne, called at the George Hotel, St. Kilda, on the 3rd instant, and went away with a young man named Charles Patworth, who was employed at the hotel. They may go up country hawking the stolen jewellery. He may go to New Zealand. —0.5882. Bth July, 1893.