Stealing Otherwise than from the Person or from Dwellings.

New Zealand Police Gazette, Volume XIX, Issue 11, 29 May 1895, Page 86

Stealing Otherwise than from the Person or from Dwellings.

Manaia. —Albert Joseph Bevan, labourer, reports stolen from off his horse, on the 19th ultimo, a new saddle, slightly chewed about foot from centre buckle, mark of rubbing on off pad; and a single-reined bridle : value, £3.

Hunterville. —Robert Kilpatrick Simpson, Vinegar Hill, reports stolen from off his horse, on the 18th instant, a plated headstall bridle, made of green hide, single-reined, Turk’s head and holes instead of buckles; has been repaired with leather on top of headstall ; value, £1 ss.

“ Anglian ” s.s. (Gisborne). — John Andrew Kerrigan reports stolen from his coat on the 1 Lth or 12th instant, between Napier and Gisborne, an old brown-leather pocket-book, containing £l7 10s. in gold, and a shearer’s ticket, Moree Branch, for the year 1895, bearing the owner’s name, “J. A. Kerrigan.” Complainant’s address is Bingara, via Tamworth, Sydney, New South Wales.

Wellington. William H. Beetham, station-owner, Masterton, reports stolen from the social hall of the s.s. “ Wainui, ” on the Bth instant, an opossum rug, lined with red flannel, rolled up and fastened with two leather straps ; value, £lO.

Christchurch. —Francis Christopher Tabart, auctioneer, Woolston, reports stolen from his shed, on the 17th or 18th instant, a pigskin saddle, large size, lined with leather, English make, colonial pattern, medium-sized knee-pads, fourbar German-silver stirrups, medium size, leather breastplate, and web girths ; also a single-reined bridle, one side of rein repaired, throat band fastened to headpiece with copper rivet, snaffle bit: value, £6 ss.

Christchurch. —Philip Masservy, Opawa, reports stolen from the ketch “ Annie,” at the Woolston Wharf, on the 9th or 10th instant, a small barometer ; small lever clock, German make; grey blanket; blue-cloth monkey-jacket; and a patchwork rug: value, £3 Is. 6d.

Dunedin. —Edmond Greenslade, farmer, Half-way Bush, reports stolen from Speight and Co.’s brewery, on the 11th instant, a black-tweed overcoat, much worn, “E. Greenslade ”on tab ; a pair of black-woollen knitted gloves; and three white pocket-handkerchiefs: value, 13s.

Dunedin. —Thomas O’Brien is charged on warrant with having, at Port Chalmers, on the 18th or 19th ultimo, stolen from a stable a saddle, value £2 (since recovered), and a threebladed pocket-knife, value 2s. 6d., the property of George Smythe. Offender is a native of Australia, a bootmaker by trade, but has been recently employed as a groom in Fitzgerald’s circus, sixteen years of age, sft. 4in. high, dark complexion, light-brown hair, blue eyes, medium nose ; wore a striped-check coat, dark-tweed trousers, and soft brownfelt hat. (See Police Gazette, 1895, page 51.) He went north on foot.