Stealing Otherwise than from the Person or from Dwellings.

New Zealand Police Gazette, Volume XXI, Issue 1, 6 January 1897, Page 3

Stealing Otherwise than from the Person or from Dwellings.

Thames. —Lemuel John Bagnall, Turua, reports stolen fi;om off a clothes-lme, on the Bth or 9th ultimo, six white Turkish towels, an unbleached linen table-cloth, a pair of men’s merino drawers, a suit of striped flannel pyjamas, a print dress with black ground and small pink flower pattern, two pairs of dark-blue woollen socks with white toes and heels, two grey-flannel undershirts, a pair of brown-merino socks, two pairs of ladies’ black stockings, and a grey woollen shirt; value, £2 15s. 6d.

“Flora,” s.s. (Napier). Edward Gibbs, commercial traveller, care of E. W. Mills and Co., Wellington, reports stolen from the saloon landing, on the 30th November last, a dark and grey pilot-cloth overcoat, slop Chesterfield make, “ Kirkcaldie and Stains ” supposed on tab ; value, £2.

Napier. —Alias Coory Abraham, Assyrian hawker, reports stolen from the woolshed at Mohaka, on the 11th ultimo, a colonial grey-tweed paget coat, size 5 ; three pairs of trousers, similar material; a pair of black-tweed trousers, English make, size 7 ; a pair of grey-tweed trousers, size 4;

and a pair of brownish tweed ditto with dark stripes, size T : total value, £7. Maoris who were shearing at the station suspected.

(See Police Gazette , 1896, pages 208 and 214.) '

Danneviriie. —Thomas Fitzsimmons and (Josiah) Woods, charged with the theft of David Smith’s tent and fly, have been arrested by Constable W. J. Butler, Hastings police, and remanded to Dannevirke. Stolen property found in possession of Woods.

Opunake. —J. T. Roberts reports stolen from his trap, on the 23rd ultimo, a brown-paper parcel, containing a new suit of Kaiapoi tweed, dark steel-grey colour, size 6; value, £2 15s.

Wanganui. —Cornelius O’Leary, carter, reports stolen from off his horse, on the 15th ultimo, a colonial-made bullockhide saddle, considerably worn, piece tom off in front, saddletree and one stirrup-leather broken and repaired ; and a common snaffle-bridle, with horseshoe buckles: value, £llos. Supposed to have been taken by the person who stole Jessie Dallas’s grey gelding during the same night. (See “ Horse- and Cattle-stealing.”)

Otaki. —Arthur Drake, Waikawa, reports stolen from a shed, on the 7th or Bth ultimo, about thirty fleeces, shorn from Romney Marsh sheep; value, £6. Identification doubtful.

Wellington. —E. H. Beere, surveyor, reports stolen from his office, between the 26th November last and 21st ultimo, an ebony level in tan-leather case, makers Littlejohn and Son ; value, £2 10s.

Johnsonville. William Jillett, sheep-farmer, Porirua, reports stolen, about the 4th ultimo, a 19-gallon cask of cider, label addressed from Fletcher, Humphries, and Co., Cathedral Square, Christchurch, to complainant, with L. & Co., W.,” in ink thereon ; value, £3.

Johnsonville. —Between midnight of the 27th and 5 a.m. of the 28th ultimo the Wellington and Manawatu Railway Company’s station was broken into, and the safe abstracted and partly forced open, but the thieves, being, it is supposed, disturbed, did not succeed in stealing anything therefrom.

Petone.— Between midnight of the 25th and 7 a.m. on the 26th ultimo the Government Railway-station was broken into, and an unsuccessful attempt made to force the safe open.

Carterton. During the night of the 22nd ultimo the Government Railway-station was broken into, but nothing stolen.

Lower Hutt. —Edward Joshua Riddiford, farmer, reports stolen from his stable, during the night of the 27th ultimo, a colonial-made saddle with knee pads, about half worn, strand leather girth, rusty steel stirrups, stirrup-leathers broken at buckles, one repaired with twine and the other with galvanised wire ; value, £4. Also, stolen during the night of the 29th ultimo, a pair of silver-plated hames and leather traces, rein-ring fastened in eyes and not standing up ; a leather collar and a pair of blinkers, square blinds, bitstraps broken and tied with boot-lace ; value, £2.

Lower Hutt. —Thomas Paul Allen, farmer, reports stolen from his stable, during the night of the 27th ultimo, a colo-nial-made saddle with knee-pads, nearly new, white lining, strand-leather girth, slightly rat-eaten in centre, rusty stirrupirons ; value, £2 ss.

Lower Hutt. —Thomas Burt, storekeeper, reports stolen from his stable, between the 27th and 30th ultimo, a patentleather silver-mounted saddle and breeching (light-trap harness), bellyband broken and rather short, buckle of backband gone and tied with a bootlace ; and a pair of drivingreins, not much worn : value, £4 10s.

Christchurch.— (Frederick Pannell, bootmaker, reports stolen framcjmi passage'of the Empire Hotel, on the 10th Atlanta bicycle, No. 666, ' and pfrf'LCliristchurch ; cork handles rattrap penal's, clip cracked : value, £24.

(See Police Gazette, 1896, page 183.) jJ

Barque “ Pleiades,” Lyttelton.— Stealing from Frank Howard’s chest: The following arrests have been made for this offence : John McLean, alias James McLean, by Constable T. J. McCormack, Lyttelton; Robert Havdon, by Constable G. Fitzgerald, Lyttelton; and Donald Cunningham, by Constable E. Egan, Havelock. The stolen watch

was recovered by the latter constable, but no trace of the other articles has been obtained. McLean and Cunningham were sentenced by the Lyttelton Bench to one month each, and Haydon discharged.

Ashburton. —Reginald Curtis, auctioneer, reports stolen from the Arcade, on the 18th ultimo, a cocoanut carriagemat, about 3ft. by 2ft.; value, 10s.

Ashburton. —Henry Paget, blacksmith, Hinds, reports stolen from the Arcade, during the night of the 18th ultimo, a pair of new double trap-steps ; value, £1 6s.

Ashburton. —David Thomas, auctioneer, reports stolen from the Arcade, on the 18th or 19th ultimo, a draughtharness collar, small hole in lining; a pair of draught hames, and leather breeching : value, £2.

Palmerston South. —Hock Ken and Hock Louie, Horse Plat, Macrae’s, report stolen from their claim, on the 11th or 12th ultimo, about a hundred pounds’ worth of gold.

y' (See Police Gazette, 1896, page 214.)

Milton. —The New Zealand Loan and Trust Company’s fleeces have been recovered and traced to the possession of Robert Brown, alias Gardiner, and James Gray, who were arrested by the Clinton and Tapanui police for a similar theft, and sentenced to six months’ labour.

Roxburgh. —The Roxburgh Amalgamated Mining and Sluicing Company report stolen from a shed at Dismal Swamp, since the end of June last, a quantity of sawn timber, including five red-pine planks, each 15ft. by 12in. by 2in.; an iron bucket, a spade, and a wheelbarrow : value in all, £4 15s.

Dunedin. —R. A. Johnston, clerk, Land Office, reports stolen from the rifle-range, Pelichet Bay, on the 12th ultimo, a small-sized field-glass with silver-plated centre screw ; value, £4.