PROPERTY STOLEN.

New Zealand Police Gazette, Volume XXXII, Issue 14, 10 April 1907, Page 146

PROPERTY STOLEN.

Newmarket. —22nd January last, from the Captain Cook Brewery office, property of JOHN WALTER DYER, brewery hand, a silver keyless watch, No. 967868; value, £3 10s. The watch was pav/ned for 4s. by a man who gave the name of BucJcland (probably fictitious), age about twenty-three, height about 5 ft. 6 in., dark hair and complexion, cleanshaved ; dressed in dark clothes and hard black hat. (See Police Gazette, 1907, page 89.)

Newmarket. —l3th ultimo, from the malt-house, Kyber Pass Road, property of THOMAS JAMES MARSHALL, a gentlemen’s open-faced silver keyless watch, with metal chain attached, “ Saunders, Sydney,” on dial; value, £1 15s. Identifiable. Suspicion attached to a Man unknown, age about twenty-five, height 5 ft. 4 in. or 5 in., jockey appearance, slight build, dark hair, sallow complexion, clean-shaved ; dressed in dark clothes and Panama hat.

Wanganui.— 7th ultimo, from the wharf, property of CECIL MOORE, clerk, a gentlemen’s new Hudson’s freewheel bicycle, No. B 21190 under saddle, No. 1160 under near crank, upright handle-bars, rat-trap pedals, plain tire on front wheel, non-slipping tire on back wheel; value, £2O. Identifiable.

Denniston. —26th ultimo, from the WESTPORT COAL COMPANY, a piebald pony gelding, black head, white shoulders, black saddle-mark, hind-quarters black to hocks, aged, about 12| hands high, mane and tail docked ; value, £2O. Identifiable.

Christchurch.— 6th or 7th ultimo, from Colombo Street, property of ALFRED ENGLAND, timber - merchant, a gentlemen’s Rudge-Whitworth bicycle, rubber pedals, one rubber missing, brake on both wheels, straight handles, 26 in. frame, old celluloid grips ; value, £7. Identifiable.

Christchurch. —9th ultimo, from Parsons’s boardinghouse, property of JOHN TELFER, labourer, a gentlemen’s black Kaiapoi waterproof overcoat; value, £2 10s. Suspicion attached to Otto Peaterson, age twenty-three, height 5 ft. 7 in., labourer, native of Germany, fresh complexion, fair hair, blue eyes ; dressed in dark sac suit and straw hat. Star tattooed between right finger and thumb.

St. Andrew’s. —Ist or 2nd instant, from the premises of DONALD GRANT WATT, builder, a gentlemen’s RudgeWhitworth bicycle, No. 203946, ram’s-horn handles, Brooks saddle, three spokes broken in back wheel; value, £l2. Identifiable.

Fairlie.— Between 14th and 23rd ultimo, from the paddock of JAMES WILSON, a black, heavy, low-set draught mare, five years old, hairy legs, a few white hairs on one hind foot and white snip on nose, supposed to be in foal; value, £6O. Identifiable. Suspicion attached to William Lambert, age about twenty-six, height 5 ft. 5 in., labourer, native of New Zealand, dark-brown hair, slight build, clean-shaved, brown sunburnt complexion; generally wears dark suit and cap.

Dunedin. —Bth ultimo, from a building in Princes Street, property of WILLIAM ANDERSON, plumber, an American rolled-gold hunting-watch, has engraved inside “ Guaranteed to be made of two gold plates with composition between, and to wear twenty years ”; and a heavy silver curb-chain: value, £9 10s. Identifiable.

Dunedin.— Bth or 9th ultimo, from His Majesty’s Theatre, property of NELLIE WILSON, actress, a paste-diamond necklace, a paste-diamond heart, a paste-diamond half-moon brooch, a paste-diamond crescent brooch, a paste-diamond pendant. All large-pattern stage jewellery, French manufacture ; some of the imitation diamonds missing.

Dunedin.— 26th February last, from the hut of JABEZ LYONS, fisherman, a double-barrelled muzzle-loading gun, stock split, and bound with strong cord; value, £2. Suspicion attached to Edward Johnstone, age seventeen, height 4 ft., sailor, native of America, thin build, fair hair and complexion, blue eyes, clean-shaved ; dressed in dark-blue suit and dark cap.