PROPERTY STOLEN.

New Zealand Police Gazette, Volume XLIII, Issue 28, 17 July 1918, Page 429

PROPERTY STOLEN.

Newton. —6th instant, from HENRY CLARKSON’S shop in Ponson'oy Road, a gentlemen’s 18 ct. gold keyless hunting English lever large size “ Deme ” watch, No. 16382, with “J. H. Rayner ” on inside case; value, £9. Identifiable.

Newton. —4th instant, from a passage-way at the Postoffice, the property of the NEW ZEALAND GOVERNMENT (Postal Department), a gentlemen’s B.S.A. bicycle, No. 728, black-enamelled with canary-coloured forks, grips and front mud guard missing, rubber pedals, lamp-bracket bent; value £B. Identifiable.

Newton.— 24th ultimo, from JONES BROTHERS’ shop, Karangahape Road, a ladies’ 18 ct. gold dress-ring, set with a ruby in centre of diamond cluster ; value, £B. Identifiable. Suspicion is attached to Jessie Meeske, age thirty, height 5 ft. 4 in., native of New Zealand, medium build, pale complexion, brown hair, blue eyes ; usually dressed in dark clothes, black furs, and muff ; slightly deaf in one ear ; respectable appearance. (See Police Gazette, 1917, page 300.)

Auckland. SOVVERBY’S premises at 228 Hobson Street, a black-and-white English setter dog, strong build, left front paw has been injured, answers to “ Slash ” ; value, £lO. Identifiable.

Auckland. —Bth May last, from the dwelling of Mrs. Pickering, the property of RUTH SMYTH, waitress, 107 Grey Street, a 9 ct. gold curb bracelet, large links, with imitation greenstone setting between each link, small imitation buckle on it; value, £4. Identifiable.

Auckland.— 2lst ultimo, from a lavatory at Sonom Boardinghouse, Alfred Street, the property of JEAN McGREGOR, a ladies’ silver open face wristlet Waltham watch, Nos. 5075532 and 20355389, lumiuous dial and hands, piece broken off one hand, back case dull; value, £3. Identifiable.

Newmarket. —3rd June last, from the footpath in Broadway, the property of JOSEPHINE DRAKE, Henderson, a wicker market-basket, about 14 in. long, containing a Post Office Savings bank book showing a credit of £200; and a blaok-leather handbag, containing £6 in notes and four railway tickets to Henderson: total value, about £6 13s. Basket and purse only identifiable.

Waipukurau. —About the 20th ultimo, from a coat in a bedroom at the Tavistock Hotel, Hastings, the property of JOHN JOHNSTON, farmer, Foxton, a Bank of New Zealand £lO note, No. 037741; and a Bank of New Ze dand £5 note, No. 085988. Suspicion is attached to Williams (name probabiy fictitious), age thirty, height stt. 7 in., medium build, clean-shaved; dressed in a light-grey suit ; impediment in speech. The suspect occupied a room at the hotel adjoining complainant’s.

Palmerston North. —Between the 28th ultimo and 2nd instant., from a motor-oar, trie property of JOHN MOORE JOHNSTON, commission ageut, Fitzuerbert Street, a orown waterproof buggy-rug, 6 ft. by 4£ ft., lined with soft check material, edge bound with leather straps at each side ; value £5. Identifiable.

Levin. —On the 24th ultimo, WILLIAM CHILD’S whare at Manakau was broken into, and a Post Office Savings-bank book, No. 5543, showing a credit of £275, stolen therefrom.

Carterton. —On or about the sth instant, from a motorshed at Booth and Co.’s sawmill, the property of GEORGE GRAVES, a gentlemen’s black enamelled Westbury bicycle, No. 30221, 24 in. frame, Eadie Coaster front-rim brake, Michehn tires, Special saddle ; value, £lO. Identifiable.

Oxford. -On or about 30th May last, from WALTER THOMAS NORRIS’S premises at Harrelville, four cases of “Plume” and “Clift” benzine; a 4-gallon tin of lubricat-ing-oil, branded C ; two new Maltese non-skid motor-tires, Nos. 17024 and 17110, size 30 x 3£: total value, £l7. Tires only identifiable. Suspioion is attached to Cyril Watkins, age twenty, height 5 ft. 5 in., taxi-driver, native of New Zealand, medium build, thin features, and a Man (name unknown), age about forty-three, heigtit 6 ft., stout build, large features, heavy ginger moustache ; dressed in a dark overcoat and felt hat.

Christchurch. —sth April last, from a bedroom at the Masonio Hotel, the property of EDITH MAUD CLARK, a gold ring, set with five opals in olaw setting ; a leaf-shaped brooch, set with pearls and turquoises; a ladies’ singlet; a white-handle two-blade pocket knife ; a small black purse; and 7s. 6d. in money: total value, £B. Identifiable except money.

Christchurch.—3rd ultimo, from the oloak-room at the Plumbton Park Racecourse, the property of MAGGIE McCORMACK, Springston, a ladies’ full-length blaok-fur overcoat, with purple lining ; value, £lO. Identifiable.

Christchurch. — On the BOtli ultimo, GEORGE .BILLINGS’S dwelling at 334 Baibadoes Street was broken into, and the following property of NELLIE GUNN stolen therefrom: A ladies’ brown-leather oblong handbag, with a woman’s head embossed on one side, containing £10; a ladies’ 9 ct. gold open-face Rolex watch in a brown-leather wristlet, No. 622445 : total value, £l7 12s. 6d. Identifiable except money.

Glenavy. —lst instant, from a bedroom at the Glenavy Hotel, the property of THOMAS LANSEY, a large lightgrey first-grade opossum-rug, lined with purple felt scolloped and trimmed with braid on edges; value, £lO. Identifiable.

Winton.— Between 10th May last and the 14th ultimo, from a paddock, the property of WALTER M. SMITH, forty-five mixed hoggetts, ewes earmarked with a star-shaped piece out of right ear and a notch out of left ear, wethers similarly earmarked on opposite ears, several are branded with W S on left ribs ; total value, £56 ss. Identifiable.