PROPERTY STOLEN.

New Zealand Police Gazette, Volume XXIX, Issue 31, 12 October 1904, Page 300

PROPERTY STOLEN.

Newmarket. —28th or 29th ultimo, from the engine-room of ELIAS PASCOE, contractor, a set of stocks and dies, value £4 10s., two taps, a punch, a steel divider, a pair of dynamite pliers, a new pick, a box of dynamite caps No. 6, and a 4 ft. steel drill; total value, £6 Is. 6d. Breaking and entering.

Newton. 2nd instant, from the dwelling of JOHN UPTON, Beresford Street, an 18-carat gold ring set with a blue-stone, a gold-bar brooch with horse shoe on it, pin missing, a pair of plain gold ear-rings, a silver-mounted brown-morocco purse, a £1 note, and a half-sovereign ; total value, £5 12s. Identifiable.

Surrey Hills. —Between 17th and 19th ultimo, from a new building at Richmond, a ratchet-brace, “ R. Poole ” cut in handle, three brace-bits, branded “ R.P.,” value 13s. 9d , the property of ROBERT POOLE ; a ratchet-brace, a spiritlevel, “ P.” cut in wood, a screw-driver, “ M.P.” cut in handle, a claw-hammer, and six twist-bits, the property of MATTHEW POOLE, value £1 11s. Identifiable.

Surrey Hills. —Between 24th and 26th ultimo, from a new building at Richmond, the property of CHARLES HORSEY, carpenter, a brace, bits from J in. to 1 in., a Disston compass-saw, a Jin. bevel chisel, and a draw-knife ; value, 19s. 6d. Identifiable.

Surrey Hills. —Between 24th and 26th ultimo, from a new building at Richmond, the property of CHARLES JOHNS, carpenter, a fin. bevel chisel, a wood gauge, a pair of compasses, and a punch ; value, ss. Identifiable.

Mangawai. RADALY, gumdigger, a silver keyless Austrian huntingwatch ; two men, a horse, and two dogs on the front and back cases; value, £3. Suspicion attached to Arthur Pox, age thirty-two, height about 5 ft. 10 in. or 11 in., medium build, dark complexion, black hair and whiskers ; dressed in dark coat, blue-dungaree pants, and slouch hat. Breaking and entering.

Mangawai. NOBBLER, gumdigger, about 301 b. scraped black kaurigum, a piece of dark gum about J lb. weight polished on one side, and a piece of white sugar-gum polished on both sides ; value, 16s. Suspicion attached to Arthur Fox. (For description see preceding paragraph.)

Dannevirke. Between 7th and 12th ultimo, from a dressing-room at the Recreation Grounds, the property of AUGUST CARLSON, sawmiller, a nearly new singlebreasted blue-vicuna Chesterfield coat, lined with browncheck material, sleeves lined with a lighter material with blue stripes, “ Wysocki ” on tab; value, £5 10s. Identifiable.

Wellington. 26th August last, from the National Mutual Buildings, Custom House Quay, the property of CLIFFORD SMYTH, clerk, Union Bank, a gentlemen’s Osmond bicycle, No. 790, black - enamelled 24 in. frame, 65 gear, left crank loose, turned-down handles ; value, £B. Identifiable.

Lower llutt. — 19th or 20th ultimo, from the paddock of JOHN AUGUST, farmer, Waiwetu, a dark-bay mare, aged, 14 hands high, “V” in one ear; value, £6. Also, a lightbay filly, three years old, 14J hands high, white star on forehead, white patch on hind fetlock, long tail, newly shod ; has been ridden a few times ; value, £2O. Identifiable.

Christchurch.— l4th ultimo, from the Lyttelton Times yard, the property of CHARLES PORTER, a gentlemen’s black-enamelled “Martin” bicycle, 23 in. frame, reversible handles, 810 road-racing saddle ; black-celluloid mud-guards, Palmer tires, rat-trap pedals, B.S.A. parts, black pump attached ; value, £l3. Identifiable.

Christchurch.— 24th or 25th ultimo, from the factory of Messrs. DUCKWORTH and TURNER, boot manufacturers, Carlyle Street, twenty pairs of boots (recovered), value £l3 ; three pairs of women’s “ Albert ” slippers, size 3 or 4, branded 726 ; a pair of ladies’ chrome Balmoral boots, high legs, heel and toe tips, branded 813, and a gross of black-braid shoelaces, value £1 7s. 6d. Two men were seen taking the boots from the factory : one of them is described as about 5 ft. 9 in. high, medium build ; dressed in dark clothes and hard black hat; the other about 5 ft. 6 in. high, well built, dressed in dark clothes, and cap of a lighter colour than clothes. Breaking and entering by window.

Christchurch.. — 2nd instant, from Cashel Street, the property of ARTHUR JAMES BARGE, journalist, a gentlemen’s light roadster Star bicycle, No. 5876 over 12711, celluloid mud-guards ; Brooks saddle; value, £2O. Identifiable.

Christchurch. Racecourse, the property of THOMAS FROST, jockey, New Brighton, a pair of riding-boots, a pair of white-cord breeches, a jockey’s orange-and-purple silk jacket and cap; value, £4. Identifiable.

Christchurch. —20th August last, from the bicycle of CHARLES SAMUEL JEFFS, in Manchester Street, a gentlemen’s dark-grey tweed sac coat and trousers ; value, £4 ss. Identifiable.

Christchurch. — 4th instant, from Hereford Street, the property of ARTHUR CHARLES IDIENS, builder, a gentlemen’s Raleigh bicycle, “ Ritchie and Rosendale ” on front tube of frame, B.S.A. parts, Westwood rims, blue line in centre, bent cherry-wood handles, small patch on baok tire, large saddle ; value, £l2. Identifiable.

Christchurch. - 12th or 13th ultimo, from the stable of E. M. TERRELL, ELndalton, a gentlemen’s English saddle, about two years in use, small flaps, leather girth, a doublerein bridle with heavy plated twisted bit, headstall and reins sewn to bit; also a single-rein bridle with heavy steel racing bit, reins and headstall sewn to bit: value, £lO. Identifiable.

Christchurch. Market Hotel, the property of HENRY HADDRILL, licensee, eighteen silver-plated knives and forks, value £3; twelve white-handled dinner-knives, value 18s. Identifiable. Suspicion attached to Roland Heimburger, age thirty-eight, height 5 ft. Ilf in., a clerk, native of Finland, fair complexion, fair hair, blue eyes. (See Police Gazette, 1899, page 140.)

Nelson.— lst or 2nd instant, from JOHN GRAHAM, M.H.R., on board the s.s. “ Wainui,” between Wellington and Nelson, a pigskin purse, saddler’s make, containing a cheque for £25 on the Rank of New Zealand, dated 30th September, payable to J, Graham, signed 0. E. Chittey, Cashier to the Treasury, an American five-dollar gold coin, a receipt from Findlay, Dalziell, and Co. for £250, and about five sovereigns. Suspicion attached to a man, name unknown, age about twenty-eight, height about 5 ft. 5 m., stiff build, clean-shaved, darkish complexion, rather full face, dark hair, dressed in dark-blue sac suit, black hard hat with a feather in the side, a gold watch-chain with greenstone pendant.

Westport.— 3oth ultimo, from the shop of LOUIS CARMINE, bootmaker, a gentlemen’s Swiss rolled-gold hunting keyless watch, side action for regulating hands ; value £1 ss. Identifiable.

Dunedin. —2oth ultimo, from the dwelling of MARGARET JACKSON, Leith Street, a ladies’ gold dress ring set with two rubies and a pearl in a row, two small pearls above and two below the larger one, value £3 ; a small glass phial containing over an ounce of alluvial gold, value £5. Breaking and entering by window.

Dunedin. —24th ultimo, from the restaurant of ROLAND TODD, High Street, a slate-coloured rainproof overcoat, one button missing ; value, £2. Identifiable.