Stealing Otherwise than from the Person or from Dwellings.

New Zealand Police Gazette, Volume XVIII, Issue 16, 8 August 1894, Page 124

Stealing Otherwise than from the Person or from Dwellings.

Devonport (Auckland). —Mary Wilson, Wade, reports stolen from an outhouse, on the 25th or 26th ultimo, about 2cwt. scraped kauri-gum; value, £6.

Tenui. —Elder and Co., Langdale, report stolen from off a fence in the Mongapakaha Road, on the 17th or 18th ultimo, twenty-six sheepskins ; value, £2 12s.

Johnsonville (Wellington). —Joseph Chapman reports that on the 28th or 29th ultimo his factory was broken into, and about fifteen pairs of men’s and boys’ lace-up boots, value 7s. per pair; and a stationery-box, value 7s. 6d., stolen. Box since found on the road.

Wellington. —J. Devlin, grocer, Cuba Street, reports stolen from outside his shop, on the 30th ultimo, a box, marked JD, containing 501 b. of tea; value, £5.

Christchurch. —Hugh Hepburn, engineer, reports stolen from an office in Tuam Street, on the 23rd ultimo, a black-and-brown-tweed overcoat, small-check pattern, fly front, cape missing; value, £2. Suspicion attached to a man, name unknown, supposed a native of the colony, about twenty-one years of age, about sft. 7in. high, medium build, fair complexion, very small fair moustache only; dressed in a dark-tweed suit, and soft blaclc-felt hat. Identifiable.

Christchurch. —John George Seaton, 118, Cashel Street, reports stolen from his stables, on the 12th or 13th ultimo, an American breastplate and pair of traces, complete ; and a pair of leather buggy-traces, nearly new ; value, £2 ss.

Christchurch. Elizabeth Nappey, Linwood, reports stolen from a wash-house, on the 22nd or 23rd ultimo, three

chemises (two nearly new, one repaired), a pair of ladies’ flannelette drawers, a ladies’ flannelette nightdress, and a knitted woollen singlet; value, 15s.

“ Takapona,” s.s., Lyttelton. James Gardner, chief cook, reports stolen from his cabin, on the 2nd instant, two white pouter pigeons (cock and hen), “ S. Gardner ” printed underneath wings ; value, £l.

Dunedin. —The Dunedin Harbour Board reports stolen from the wharf, between the 25th and 27th ultimo, six cases of “ Pine Tree ” turpentine, each containing two four-gallon tins; four of the cases marked “ J.B. and C 0.,” one “ W.G. and C 0.,” and one “ J.B. and Co.” ; value, £6.

(See Police Gazette, 1894, page 119.) Dunedin. —Larceny from Gilbert and Thomas C. Mathieson’s store: The stolen property has been found in the shop of a general dealer named Hamilton, who states he cannot remember from whom he bought it.

Dunedin. —Maxwell Fyfe, draper, Queen Street, reports stolen from a clothes-line, on the 80th or 31st ultimo, a tablecloth, two nightdresses, two towels, nine aprons (five coarse, two muslin, one red, and one pink), six small pinafores, four large ditto, a knitted singlet, two crochet petticoats, a small flannel petticoat, a child’s flannel coat, a boys’ flannel shirt, a man’s ditto (white), a suit of pyjamas, pair of pants, silk handkerchief, and a number of other handkerchiefs, collars, cuffs, &c.; value, £5.

Dunedin. —Mrs. Mary Ann Taylor, Queen Street, reports stolen from a clothes-line, on the Ist or 2nd instant, three men’s white shirts, three table-covers with fringed edges, four bed-sheets, two table-cloths, a dinner-napkin marked “M. A. Tajdor,” a tea-cloth, two linen pillow-cases, four linen bath-towels, four brown stripes down centre ; four pairs of children’s drawers—three with lace, one with tucks ; a child’s chemise; and throeflozen pocket-handkerchiefs—some marked T, others PT and BT; value, £4 2s.

(See Police Gazette, 1894, page 36.)

Wyndham. —Marcus Aitken’s larceny : The suspect, James Lumsden, alius Lonsdale, has been arrested by Detective W. Madden, Invercargill police, for this offence, and committed for trial by the Wyndham Bench. Stolen property recovered.

Hokitika.— Duncan MacGregor, carpenter, reports stolen from his workshop, between the Bth and 23rd ultimo, eleven planes of various patterns, a 2in. chisel, and a cast-steel claw-hammer; all marked with complainant’s name ; value, £2 11s. Cd.