Deserting Wives and Families, &c.

New Zealand Police Gazette, Volume XXV, Issue 26, 18 December 1901, Page 289

Deserting Wives and Families, &c.

Auckland.— Leopold Ahrens is charged on warrant with disobeying an order of Court to pay 10s. a week towards the support of his wife. Description : A native of New Zealand, a salesman and hawker, twenty-eight years of age, 5 ft. 9 in. high, medium build, fair hair, small fair moustache, grev eyes, one front top tooth false. (See Police Gazette, 1900, page 87, and 1901, page 30.) The sum of £4 10s. was due on the 3rd instant.

Auckland.— Walter Charles Marlborough, alias Professor Besant, alias Fern, is charged on warrant with disobeying an order of Court to pay £1 a week towards the support of his wife. Description : A native of England, a phrenologist, forty years of age, 5 ft. 8£ in. high, medium build, dark busby hair turning grey, fair moustache. (See Police Gazette, 1901, pages 149 and 207.) The sum of £l6 ss. was due on the 3rd instant.

(See Police Gazette, 1901, page 280.)

Auckland. —Frederick Huxtable, charged with default of maintenance for his wife, has been arrested by Constable T. O’Grady, Waiuku police, and arrears paid.

(See Police Gazette, 1898, page 73.)

Paiiiatua. —Edward McMahon, charged with wife desertion, was seen in the Waverley Hotel, Auckland, about the 6th instant, by a resident of Pabiatua.

Wellington. — Archie McLean is charged on warrant with being about to leave the colony without making provision for his unborn illegitimate child. Description: A native of New Zealand, a carpenter, about twenty-six years of age, 6 ft. high, medium build, dark complexion, dark hair, clean-shaved except small dark moustache; dressed in dark sac suit and black bard-felt hat. Supposed gone to Auckland on the 20th October last, and may be with his married sister, Mrs. J. R. Leikes, Napier Street. He is a nephew of John McLean, contractor, and was working at the Glasgow Wharf, Wellington, until he left.

Christchurch. — Henry Hanson is charged on warrant with failing to provide for the future maintenance of his unborn illegitimate child. Description : A native of New Zealand, a brick-maker, twenty-two years of age, about 6 ft. high, slight build, dark complexion and hair, small dark moustache only, blue eyes, small straight nose, two front teeth missing; dressed in brown sao suit, brown cap. Complainant : Frances Wooldridge, 78, Chester Street, Christchurch.

(See Police Gazette, 1901, page 280.) Christchurch. —Charles Baker, charged with wife-deser tion: Warrant cancelled.

Timaru. — John Breadley is charged on warrant with disobeying an order of Court to pay 7s. 6d. a week towards the support of his illegitimate child. Description : A native of New Zealand, a farm-hand, about twenty-seven years of age, about 5 ft. 9 in. high, square build, thin features, fresh complexion, small dark-sandy moustache only, first joint of one thumb missing; dressed in dark-tweed suit and hard dark hat; was in Temuka on 3rd instant, and may attempt to leave the colony. The sum of £122 is now due, the order being made on the 27th May, 1894, when offender left for Queensland. Complainant; Jane Maopherson Grant, Pleasant Point.

Gore. — William Baltimore is charged on warrant with failing to provide for the maintenance of his wife. Description : A native of Scotland, a saddler, forty-two years of age, 5 ft. 6in. high, rather stout build, fair hair and complexion, round features, sear near right eye. He left Gore on the 24th October, 1898. Photograph filed in the Inspector’s office, Dunedin.